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  "notes": "Under the heading \"Device a Proven Success\", the foundry is reported casting \"Bend\" auto signs and \"Bend\" emblems for other purposes, similar to the one on the block presented to the Bend Commercial Club, largely for advertising.",
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    "summary": "In April 1922 the Bend Iron Works was casting \"Bend\" auto signs and emblems for advertising, similar to the one on the juniper block given to the Bend Commercial Club.",
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      "The Bend Iron Works, under Casey, was casting \"Bend\" auto signs and \"Bend\" emblems \"for other purposes\", largely for advertising.",
      "They were \"similar to the one on the block presented to the Bend Commercial club Wednesday\" — identifying the recipient of the April 5 gavel and juniper block as the Bend Commercial Club.",
      "The heading calls the device \"a proven success\", ten weeks before the Commercial Club's committee formally reported on adopting the Emblem Club's device.",
      "The works was producing the emblem on objects before the town formally took it up."
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      "No image or description of the device appears. What these castings looked like is not established here.",
      "\"Bend auto signs\" and \"Bend emblems\" are the newspaper's wording; neither is said to be the Emblem Club's device, though the June 1922 report makes that connection explicit.",
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      "The heading is “Device a Proven Success”. That is ten weeks before the Commercial Club's committee formally reported on adopting “the one adopted several years ago by the Emblem club”, and before the same works announced it could cast the emblem in aluminium for automobiles. The foundry was already in production; the town caught up afterwards.",
      "What the page will not tell us is what the device looked like. “Bend auto signs” and “Bend emblems” are the reporter's words for objects nobody has yet found."
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