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      "\"The first show was held on August 19, 1911, and one has been held each year since then with the exception of 1918, 1919, and 1934.\"",
      "The show therefore predates both the Emblem Club and the emblem itself.",
      "Nearly 45 divisions and five cups were arranged for 1939; the Emblem club award was for the best modernistic arrangement.",
      "Mrs. R. E. McCormack is named as having won the Lions sweepstakes and the Elks award, \"as well as the Emblem club cup\", and had lately moved to Albany."
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      "The sentence naming McCormack runs three awards across a relative clause; reading it as giving her the Emblem cup in 1938 is probable rather than certain, and the year is not stated outright.",
      "The show's own history here is the paper's account in 1939, not a contemporary 1911 record.",
      "The report concerns the show; it says nothing about the emblem as a device."
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      "Nearly 45 divisions were arranged for 1939, with five cups: the Lions club award for the sweepstakes winner, the Elks award for the most points won by an individual exhibitor, the Johnson cup for the best still-life exhibit, the Garden club award for the best colour-harmony exhibit under fourteen inches, “and the Emblem club award for the best modernistic arrangement”.",
      "The paper adds that Mrs. R. E. McCormack, who had taken the Lions sweepstakes the previous year and the Elks award in 1938, had won the Emblem club cup as well, and had moved to Albany a few weeks before."
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