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  "notes": "A retrospective on funding Bend’s new library records a $25 gift from the Emblem club.",
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      "The gift is not dated. It is added to a running total alongside accrued interest, so it could fall anywhere between 1927 and 1938.",
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      "It does not show the club was active after the May 1924 vote to disband. A body disposing of its assets is what liquidation looks like."
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