Metropolitan Brick Sees Hope for Fuller Plant Use
Stark County expects federal and state aid to resume road improvements that will lift unemployment. Metropolitan Brick Co president Blair says demand may rebound as 15 million dollars in public work is planned with Stark County share near one million. Nine Canton plants and three in North Canton plus a Minerva roofing plant employ about 700 now under government curbs.
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Stark Ce
Tate and County
Deral
Blair
Thepolitan Brick Co
Canton
Frihat
Metropolitan Co
Stown
Cleveland
Min
Stark
Polish Army Contingents Consider Exit via Dantzig
Fragmentary report quotes General Haller and Polish officers speculating on Polish forces leaving France for Dantzig amid tensions. Mention of Marshal Foch and potential occupation of Dantzig by Polish, Slovak, and other allied forces.
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Haller
France
Foch
England
Silesia
Europe
Dantzig
Weather and community events in Canton area
The note mentions Ohio weather tonight and a colder spell tomorrow with classes at Canton Business College. It lists a Sunday dinner menu including fruit cocktail, homey dishes, roast potatoes, jelly, tea, and pudding. Also notes a social gathering at Eagles Hall at 2:30 p.m. with a contact to call.
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Ohio
Canton
Ollege
Ady
Ohio Soldiers Welcomed in Cleveland After France Service
Canton members of the 331st Infantry of the 88th Division arrived from France and were greeted in Cleveland with a monster parade and four hours of festivities at Grays armory. Families met their soldiers as bands played and crowds cheered. Major General Edwin F. Glenn, commander of the division, landed at Newport News.
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Canton
France
Sherman
331St Infantry
Cleveland
331St
Grays Armory
83Rd
Camp Sherman
Edwin F. Glenn
Newport News
Local Advertisements Include Music Gear and Schedule Updates
A cluster of ads lists Artelian Talking Machines from $20, Woomer Pigno Co. hearing rooms, Norwoods orchestra at Eagle Hall, and Buckeye Lodge K of P Knight Rank refreshment night. Also notices change of schedule for W. & L. E. trains from Canton with routes to Cleveland Coshocton Zanesville Toledo Carrollton and Wheeling. New Brinkerboff players arrive Kenny’s Piano department.
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L. E
Cleveland
Canton
Coshocton
Zanesville
Toledo
Wheeling
Carrollton
Sherrodsville
Spartacans Quit Wilhelmshaven and Cuxhaven
Berlin reports Spartacans who dominated Wilhelmshaven have surrendered after street fighting. Advices say Cuxhaven and Bremershaven also fell to government forces. Paris notes French occupation troops have advanced beyond Kehl under armistice terms.
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Berlin
Spartacans
Wilhelmshaven
Cuxhaven
Bremershaven
Copenhagen
London
Germany
Kehl
Baden
Strassburg
Ohio 37th Division trophies to be sent to state house yard
General Farnsworth reports seven German machine guns and two trench mortars captured by the 37th Division in the Argonne forest will be sent to Ohio if the War Department approves. He notes many trophies are unmarked, and the items may join other trophies in Columbus, Ohio, if authorized.
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Columbus
Co. S. Farnsworth
Cox
Las
37Th
Ohio
Farnsworth
Local Trade Ads Highlight Deals and Events
Canton merchants promote a series of ads including Federal Motor Trucks Canton Motor Car Co Adv Canton Actual Business College inviting Monday classes and a school search. See Our New Player at 8490 Kenny's Piano Dept Adv. Rockers discounted 25 percent during Red Tag Sale. Canton Home Furnishing Co Adv.
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Federal Motor Trucks Canton Motor Car Co
Adv
Canton
Actual Business College
Kenny
Canton Home Furnishing Co
Wheeling Road Hill Returns to Pre War Rail Service Dates
Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad announces three new trains to Canton and Cleveland, restoring pre war service levels. Parlor and dining cars added on most through Canton routes with adjusted departure times from February 3 and February 8. Train 32 will run through to Zanesville with north connections at Harmon.
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Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad
Canton
Wheeling and
Lake Erie
Cleveland
Zanesville
Harmon
Toledo
Belgian towns move to try Kaiser for war crimes
Brussels dispatch says Louvain Dinant Wise and Tannnes authorities in Belgium plan to arraign and prosecute the former Kaiser for the mass killings carried out by German forces during the war.
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London
Louvain
Dinant
Wise
Tannnes
Brussels
German Soldiers Killed in Clash With Volunteers
Three German soldiers died in a clash at Lichterfelde as volunteers en route to fight the Poles clashed with troops returning from the eastern front who tried to turn them back. The volunteers pressed on, according to Berlin reports.
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Amsterdam
Lichterfelde
Berlin
Madmen Join In Attack On Police In Irish Town
Belfast scene reports madmen armed with iron bars joining striking attendants to beat off police at the Monaghan asylum. A red flag was raised atop the asylum building amid unrest in Ulster.
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Irish Town
Belfast
Monaghan Lunatic Asylum
Monaghan
Ulster
Cantonian survives Verdun ordeal on hard bread
Private Harold A. Hall of Company H 61st Infantry writes his mother that after fifteen days lost on the Verdun front he lived on hard bread and half a pound of sugar. He recounts moving to southern France with the 6th Division, seeing prisoners, and learning to cook and wash as a bachelor.
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Verdun
Harold A. Hall
61St Infantry
Mra. O
Hall
Navarrerd SW
War Department
France
Metz
Germany
Canton
Meas
Hamburg
Camp Gordon
331St Infantry
6Th Division
Explosion at Nyack dye plant kills worker and injures many
A series of blasts and a fire at the American Analine Dye Products plant in Nyack New York killed one worker and seriously injured about 30 others. The plant, a five story block, suffered extensive damage with the eastern wall blown out and nearby buildings set afire. The Nyack school adjacent to the site reported 1,200 pupils unharmed.
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Nyack
N. Y
American Analine Dye Products Company
Dye Products Company
Government contracts total 8444.64 to four Canton firms
Five small government contracts totaling 8,444.64 dollars were allotted to four Canton concerns and one Alliance plant. Arctic Ice Machine Co. received 2,750 for rough machine forgings. United Machine & Mfg. Co. 599.60 for forgings and 418.14 for labor. Canton Foundry & Machine Co. 3,005 for rough machined forgings. Reeves Bros. Co. of Alliance is listed for machined forgings totaling 1,686. The notice also mentions savings accounts for babies born in 1919 and local business ads.
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Canton
Alliance
Arctic Ice Machine Co
United Machine & Mfg. Co
Canton Foundry & Machine Co
Reeves Bros. Co
Canton branch A C D F appoints district organizer
Mrs J C Bow vice president of the Canton American Committee for Devastated France is named district organizer for Canton district covering eleven counties. Mrs Edward L Brookwalter of Springfield will aid in planning and coordinating branch work in Columbiana Stark Tuscarawas Carroll Jefferson Harrison Guernsey Belmont Noble Monroe and Washington counties.
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J. C. Bow
Canton
American Committee For
France
Edward L. Brookwalter
Springfield
City
Columbiana
Stark
Tuscarawas
Carroll
Jefferson
Harrison
Guernsey
Bélmont
Noble
Monroe
Washington
Peace Conference Struggles Over World Powers and Treaties
Paris dispatch reports tense sessions as nations clash over Adriatic ports Transylvania Silesia and other fronts while rumors of new secret treaties persist despite Wilson's fourteen points. Delegates fear sparks could ignite global conflict as Bolsheviks and imperial powers mobilize.
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Adriatic
Silesia
Austria
Rumania
Transylvania
Germany
Poland
Russia
Universal Military Training Bill Introduced by Senator New
Senator New of Indiana introduces a bill calling universal military training for all men over 18. The plan sets a maximum one year training period and creates a national reserve for potential wartime call up with zones and registration boards. The measure argues against a permanent large standing army and favors phased, age based distribution.
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Washington
Senator New
Indiana
National Reserve
Congress
New
Baker
Local notes and ads mixup tech price error and event notices
Typographic error in Daily News ad lists brooms as 6c instead of 63c. Modern Woodmen of America Nimisila Camp 213 hosts a ecard social Saturday Feb 1 at Cassilly Building 130 Tuse. Purgatory event features H L Addington of Pittsburgh Sunday 2:39 p.m. Eagles hall McCurdy block cor Tuse BE and Walnut ts. Free seating no collections. Also listings for Cane and Mahogan furniture and Uphorst Red Tag Sale at Home Fur Coady.
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H. L. Addington
Pittsburgh
Eagies’ Hall
McCurdy Block
Tuse. E
Walnut
Flory
Modern
Woodmen of America
Nimisila
Cassilly
Eagles
McCurdy
Uphorst
Anton
Coady
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Demeray Grouse
DR J Merenarp Dernders
Frederich Baumann
Bernard Dernberg
Frederick Naumann
General Groener
Weimar
Dernberg
Ludendorff
Naumann
Stark County
New York
Artelian Talking Machines
Woomer Pigno Co
E. M. Peek
Mer
Eagle Hall
Norwoods Orchestra
Buckeye Lodge No
P. Knight Rank
Canton Home Fur. Co
Brinkerboff
Republican Club
Miles Poindexter
Boss Hotel
McDonaldsville
C.—Ady
Canton Morris Plan Bank
Wheeling Road Hill
Kaiser
Reliable Table
Orpheum Theater
Verdun Front
Harold A. Halim
OVE Works
The
First Trust & Savings Bank
Hobart M. Cable
Woomer Piano Co
M. Peek
S.—Ady
Schlabach’s Hall
Werner
G. C. Bow
Gorernize
Co. H
K. of
Knight Rank Social
Garrettson’s Chocolate Shop
Italy
Africa
William Phillip Simms
United Press
Paris
Jan
Peace Bureau
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