{ "id": "news-1943-09-23-23", "title": "All five cups in one sentence — Bend's 22nd annual garden show, 1943", "publisher": "The Bend Bulletin, 1943-09-23, image 23; Historic Oregon Newspapers", "sourceClass": "primary", "url": "https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn90051770/1943-09-23/ed-1/seq-23/", "accessedOn": "2026-09-12", "notes": "A feature account of the August 18, 1943 garden show, printed five weeks later. It names the venue (the main USO club), the sponsor (the Bend garden club), the three judges, and all five special prize cups with their winners in a single sentence — the only place this archive holds the whole rotating slate together.", "record": "https://bendemblem.com/archive/news-1943-09-23-23/", "evidence": { "id": "news-1943-09-23-23", "kind": "history", "date": "1943-09-23", "summary": "A 1943 feature on Bend's 22nd annual garden show lists all five civic prize cups together — the only place this archive holds the whole slate the Emblem Club cup belonged to.", "findings": [ "Bend's 22nd annual garden show was held on the afternoon and evening of August 18, 1943, in the main USO club, sponsored by the Bend garden club and dedicated to the army.", "All five special prize cups are listed together: Elks club cup (victory arrangements, Mrs. Weil); Johnson trophy (miniature, Mrs. S. W. Thompson); Emblem club cup (modernistic arrangement, Mrs. E. Rasmussen); chamber of commerce trophy (under-water, Mrs. B. A. Shellhart); garden club cup (flower-vegetable combination, Mrs. Thompson).", "The judges were Dr. J. F. Hosch, Mrs. E. W. Williamson and Mrs. Clarence Elder.", "Vegetable displays came from 4-H victory gardens in Tumalo, Richardson and the Merry Diggers club of Bend; Mrs. C. K. Weil was garden club president.", "The show is numbered the 22nd annual, which counts back to 1922 rather than to 1912 or 1914." ], "limitations": [ "This is a feature printed five weeks after the show, not the award report. The three August pages remain the contemporary record.", "The show's numbering is the paper's and conflicts with other implied counts in this archive. It is recorded, not reconciled.", "Two women named Thompson appear in the cup list; whether Mrs. S. W. Thompson and Mrs. Thompson are the same person is not established.", "The Emblem Club had been dissolved for nineteen years. Nothing here is evidence about the club as an organisation." ], "objects": [ { "path": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/1943-09-23-23.pdf", "sha256": "4f2b8500bf7bd6c037e020156f5eb01bd1d5576fabf1212d35ed1d8cfc1e66b0", "url": "https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn90051770/1943-09-23/ed-1/seq-23/", "accessedOn": "2026-09-12", "role": "Received source bytes" } ], "images": [ { "original": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/1943-09-23-23.pdf", "page": 1, "box": [ 36, 120, 260, 644 ], "title": "“Blooms Featured At Garden Show” — all five prize cups, September 23, 1943.", "rights": "The Bend Bulletin · Historic Oregon Newspapers, University of Oregon; documentary reproduction, excluded from the project artwork license.", "color": true, "width": 1000, "render": "PyMuPDF at 144 dpi; JPEG quality 94", "sha256": "bbf661cf8635d7f93ec76e383de0d7467f4089122ef079a456119d4422b9c095", "from": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/news-1943-09-23-23-page-1.jpg" } ], "family": null, "origin": null, "sourceIds": [], "review": { "status": "image-reviewed", "method": "Complete source page and selected crop inspected visually; OCR used only to locate the passage.", "reviewedOn": "2026-09-12" } }, "measurement": [], "appearances": [], "appearanceLeads": [], "exhibit": { "id": "news-1943-09-23-23", "title": "Blooms featured at garden show", "intro": "The Emblem Club cup as one of five, listed together, in a show dedicated to the army.", "body": [ "Then, under “Winners Selected”: “Judges for the show, Dr. J. F. Hosch, Mrs. E. W. Williamson, and Mrs. Clarence Elder, chose the following winners as recipients of special prize cups in addition to the blue ribbons: victory arrangements, Mrs. Weil, Elks club cup; miniature, Mrs. S. W. Thompson, Johnson trophy; modernistic arrangement, Mrs. E. Rasmussen, Emblem club cup; underwater, Mrs. B. A. Shellhart, chamber of commerce trophy; and flower-vegetable combination, Mrs. Thompson, garden club cup.”", "This archive already holds Mrs. Rasmussen's 1943 win from three August pages — the announced terms, the winning entry described, and the award itself. What it did not have is the slate entire. Here are all five cups in one sentence, and they show exactly what the Emblem Club cup had become by 1943: one prize among five, for a category — “modernistic arrangement” — assigned to it by a committee that year, alongside an Elks cup, a Johnson trophy, a chamber of commerce trophy and the garden club's own.", "The 1912 cup was the club's, offered on the club's terms, to be kept by anyone who won it three seasons running. Nineteen years after the club dissolved, the terms are set by the Bend garden club, the venue is the USO club, the show is dedicated to the army, and the categories are wartime: a victory arrangement, and vegetable displays from 4-H victory gardens in Tumalo, Richardson and the Merry Diggers club of Bend. The name on the cup is all that is left of the Emblem Club in it.", "The show is also numbered. “Bend's 22nd annual garden show”, in 1943, counts back to 1922 — not to 1912, when the club first offered its cup at a flower show, and not to 1914, which the 1927 show's own numbering implies. 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