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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1902
Page
2
The Dillon Examiner is an unofficial Beaverhead County paper published Wednesdays and Saturdays in Dillon Montana. Editor and proprietor F C Kress prints at a $3 yearly advance subscription. This issue is dated Saturday September 2 1902.
Montana Democrats order a state convention in Helena on September 23 to nominate a U S representative and a Montana Supreme Court justice. Delegates apportioned by county include Beaverhead Broadwater Cascade and many others with one delegate per county based on voting population. The meeting details and delegate counting procedures are outlined by the state central committee.
The article describes a Democratic county convention with discussion of delegates and candidates. It notes a focus on mobilization, with early speeches and endorsements shaping the path toward the November election and a key implication of party strength in the region.
The passage notes Massachusetts finding the current anti trust approach inadequate after years of experience and forming a commission to draft a replacement. It critiques the president's stance on national reform and contrasts his private knowledge with uncertain congressional action, recalling Cuban reciprocity.
Fragmented OCR reads as a critique of Republican support for sugar profits and Cuban policy. Mentions Roosevelt, McKinney, and protections, arguing greed over justice and condemnation of tariffs harming can industries and people. Overall political critique with garbled phrases and incomplete names.
A garbled report outlines a chaotic struggle within the Democratic Party involving leadership control, factional divisions, and calls for action. The text references attempts to manage party cohesion, infighting, and possible moves affecting party direction during a period of internal contest.
A partially legible OCR fragment hints at local rates or prices with unclear numbers and names. The text is too damaged to extract a clear event, place, or person, but it references rate figures and possibly municipal matters.
The passage describes a rare mineral form of radium found in pitch blend with high light emission. It notes radium at $30 per ounce and contemplates a ton of pitch blend containing the metal. A prospective fortune is hinted for prospectors, with the clerk and recorder referencing the note.
Fragmentary text references rivers, sites, and individuals with scattered terms like Niigata Sena, Portestes place, Trey ctech, Chatutin site, and company wins. No coherent event or outcome discernible from the garbled material.
Ioter Mountein reports that the new branch of the Powers company aims to complete the telegraph network along the Oregon Short Line. Poles are being shipped and placed eagerly to hasten full efficiency of the expanded system.
Assistant State Superintendent J M Lewis has mailed blanks for the annual reports of clerks in all school districts. Reports include financial and general statistics, feeding into the biennial state report used by the legislature. Clerks forward to county superintendents who condense the data for the state.
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