{ "id": "news-1962-11-10-4", "title": "The Seattle Times on the Emblem Club, November 1912, recovered from a 1962 column", "publisher": "The Bend Bulletin, 1962-11-10, image 4; Historic Oregon Newspapers", "sourceClass": "primary", "url": "https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn90051770/1962-11-10/ed-1/seq-4/", "accessedOn": "2026-09-12", "notes": "A Bend's Yesterdays column of November 1962 recalling that in early November 1912 the Emblem Club of Bend was guest of honour at a Seattle Ad Club dinner attended by 265, and quoting the Seattle Times editorial: \"Bend, Oregon is a new town, but it has a boosters' club that knows its business... Bend is a 'hummer' and a 'comer'.\" The only out-of-town editorial opinion of the club in this archive.", "record": "https://bendemblem.com/archive/news-1962-11-10-4/", "evidence": { "id": "news-1962-11-10-4", "kind": "history", "date": "1962-11-10", "summary": "A 1962 Bend's Yesterdays column preserves a Seattle Times editorial on the Emblem Club from November 1912 — the only out-of-town opinion of the club in this archive.", "findings": [ "In early November 1912 the Emblem Club of Bend was guest of honour at a Seattle Ad Club dinner attended by 265 Seattle residents.", "The Seattle Times wrote editorially that Bend \"has a boosters' club that knows its business\" and that the session \"was a revelation in advanced methods of publicity\".", "Mayor George Cotterill of Seattle and Mayor G. P. Putnam of Bend were the featured speakers.", "This is the only assessment of the Emblem Club by an out-of-town newspaper in this archive.", "It is the Seattle end of the exchange the archive already holds from Bend: the club hosting the Seattle Ad Club, and issuing Seattle Contrasts in February 1913 dedicated to that club." ], "limitations": [ "This is a 1962 retrospective quoting a 1912 editorial. The Seattle Times of November 1912 has not been consulted and the quotation cannot be checked against it.", "\"Early in November, 1912\" and \"Tuesday's session\" are the only dating. No exact date is given.", "The attendance figure of 265 is the 1962 column's, from a source it does not name.", "Nothing here concerns the emblem itself.", "Bend's Yesterdays columns have been shown in this archive to be accurate on facts while rewriting tense, dropping detail and occasionally adding untraceable detail. 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This is a metropolitan daily in another state, six hundred miles away, describing the club after watching it work — and the verdict is that it knew its business and that its publicity methods were a revelation. For an organisation founded to make Bend known outside Bend, that is the nearest thing to a performance review the record contains.", "The scale is worth holding too. Two hundred and sixty-five Seattle residents at dinner, in the club's first year, with the mayors of both cities speaking. The archive already had the other half of that exchange — the Emblem Club hosting the Seattle Ad Club at a Hallowe'en luncheon in Bend, and issuing Seattle Contrasts in Seattle in February 1913, twenty-four pages of pictures and no text, dedicated to the Seattle Ad Club. This is the Seattle end of the same relationship, and it explains the dedication.", "It reaches us badly, which the record has to say plainly. This is a 1962 retrospective column quoting a 1912 editorial in a paper this project has not read. Two removes, fifty years, and no original in hand." ], "related": [ "bb-1912-12-04-adclub", "bb-1913-02-05", "bb-1912-07-24" ], "date": "1962-11-10", "collection": "recollections", "publication": "The Bend Bulletin", "images": [ { "name": "plate-1", "from": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/news-1962-11-10-4-page-1.jpg", "original": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/1962-11-10-4.pdf", "page": 1, "sha256": "ef876fc0c986dbbe783ffd6178bddbaa60b4ec0d2a75aeee791e7a0dbd38e6a2", "box": [ 1328, 948, 308, 372 ], "width": 1000, "caption": "“Bend is a ‘hummer' and a ‘comer'” — the Seattle Times on the Emblem Club, quoted in 1962.", "alt": "A newspaper column recalling that the Emblem Club of Bend was guest of honour at a Seattle Ad Club dinner in November 1912 and quoting the Seattle Times editorial about it.", "credit": "The Bend Bulletin · Historic Oregon Newspapers, University of Oregon", "sourceUrl": "https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn90051770/1962-11-10/ed-1/seq-4/", "color": true } ], "quote": "Early in November, 1912, Bend was singularly honored and advertised at a meeting of the Ad Club in Seattle, Wash. 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