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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1928
Page
4
Partial OCR reads a Foreign and Advertising sing Representative notice for the American Press Association. The readable text signals agency branding, with no clear event date or actions specified in fragments.
An advance subscription rate notice appears in the Dillon Post Office filing indicating mail transmission through the mails as second class matter.
Beaverhead County mourns the loss of Craig C. Cornell who passed away last Monday. He was a well known and highly regarded resident, honest neighbor, and trusted member of the community with a long record of upright conduct and active civic life.
The piece extols June as the prime wedding month noting many local daughters will wed. It lauds marriage as holy and beautiful, affirming happiness and hopeful future despite broader upheavals, and urges wedding bells in harmony with nature.
A town attracts residents and businesses not only with natural resources but through effective advertising. Good wages, prosperity, and industrial advantages draw people and investment, proving that publicity can turn a community into a prosperous hub even without oil or gold.
The Senate Democrats opposed a 2 cent per 100 stock transfer tax while Republicans supported collecting from stock traders. Democrats also voted to repeal a 5 cent per 100 tax on new corporate stock issues, arguing that 10 million dollars should go to the treasury and that corporations can afford the tax.
A list naming United States Senators and representatives, state executives, county officers, and judicial officials. Entries include Dixon, Juttner, Williams, Fitzgerald, Dennis, McCormick, Cone, Esselstyne, Boyle, Baer, Gilbert, Garr, Smith, Opp, Phillips, Rodgers, Bennett, Wall, Stewart, Wagner, Mahan, Erickson, Toole, Mountjoy, Orr, Emerick, Rife, Sprinkle, Nelson, Lips.
The article outlines the geographic division of 581 electoral votes and key regional blocks. It details state-by-state tallies within regions such as New England Middle Atlantic Solid South Border States Southwest Lake States Corn Belt Mountain States and Pacific Coast. It notes Solid South has 114 votes and Middle Atlantic 108 with Corn Belt at 82 and the Democratic nominee needing 152 more votes.
The piece traces how the Republican name arose in 1854 1855 with notions tied to free soil and slavery. It notes early platforms favored protective tariffs river and railroad development to the Pacific and urges readers to study 1856 to 1920 platforms by William Tyler Page to see the party’s long pledges to national advancement.
The county clerk and recorder added 427 new names during the registration period which closed last Friday. Clerk Mr. Baker attributes the spike to the upcoming presidential election and predicts a larger rise for the general election in the fall.
The article lists ages at which numerous vice presidents assumed office, noting trends from the early republic to later periods. It highlights young arrivals like John Cabell Breckinridge and Theodore Roosevelt and older figures such as Levi Morton and Adlai Stevenson, illustrating shifts in average ages over time with many named individuals and dates.
Community diary recounts Mildred Peterson returning home after high school in Dillon, local residents visiting Dillon for graduation and Decoration Day, travels to Ana Con da for IOOF and Rebekah lodges, surgeries at Barrett hospital, garden frost impact, and local teams playing at Wise River with a setback.
The article notes that neither Hoover nor Smith will attend their party conventions, a practice aligned with precedent. It cites Bryan in 1896 and Garfield in 1880 as examples where convention attendees were later nominated, with Seymour in 1868 presiding officer nominated against his protests.
A crowd of Argenta residents attended the Dillon auto auction on Saturday while Orrion Pilon stood out as the sole buyer taking home the $5.00 Ford. Mr. and Mrs. John Knapp and baby daughter visited from Butte to see G. M. Knapp over Sunday and Monday. The report mentions a Grass baseball game in progress.
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