The Canton Repository History and Masthead Details
The Canton Repository details its lineage from The Ohio Repository to The Canton Repository in 1930, noting mergers, name changes, and the advancement of daily publication. It lists Associated Press membership, special correspondents, and various office locations. Subscription and delivery rates are provided for daily and Sunday editions, with regional mail rates and required publication bylines.
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Peerenet
Brush-Moore Newspapers Inc
Market Avenue
Fifth Meet South
Canton
Ohio
Postoffice
Congress
Ohio Repository
Stark County Republican
Canton Repository & Reublican
Theanto
Audit Bureau OF Circulation
Inland Daily Press Association
Carridr
MAI
Stark
Tuscarawas
Carroll
Columbiana
Portage
Summit
Wayne
Holmes
Milking Time in Columbus proposes $650 million budget
The column argues Ohio's proposed 650 million dollar budget exposes a welfare state trap. Governor Lausche warns subsidies favor special interests and will strain taxpayers, as government redistributes wealth to schools, municipalities, and minorities. It urges prudence and a balanced total within state capacity.
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Columbus
General Assembly
Lausche
Ohio
Treasury
Prudence
Thomas J. Herbert
Trial by Fire stresses fire safety in hospitals and hotels
The article argues that fire safety remains imperfect despite precautions in hospital and hotel design. It warns one mistake or unseen accident can cause disaster, noting recent fires in so called fire proof hotels and speculating on future progress toward absolute fire control across the United States.
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Effingham
United States
Congress Eyes Reserve Clause Shield For Baseball
The piece argues professional baseball may seek congressional action to defend the reserve clause against potential court decisions. It contrasts swift congressional reaction to baseball with delays over business issues like portal-to-portal pay and basing-point price rulings, noting Congress still debates the last ruling.
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Congress
Price Support Debate Tracks Grain and Potato Purchases
Washington debates price support as Congress weighs Truman promises to fund storage for grain. The piece highlights the potato purchases by the Agriculture Department, including $2.66 per hundredweight plus 84 cents freight, leading to a $3.50 total and losses near $100 million. Potatoes were sold to farmers for livestock feed at as little as one cent, with a strict clause banning human use and heavy liquidated damages for misuses.
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Washington
Congress
President Truman
Department of Agriculture
John J. Williams
Delaware
Fred E. Busbey
Illinois
Commodity Credit Corp
Europe
Pandybatting and corporal punishment in old schools
An 89 year old New York reader recalls the brutal practice of pandybatting in schools. Teachers used straps, rulers, and switches to strike palms and bare buttocks, with the Punisher bearing pressure to finish a beating. Modern times show no such equipment, but memories linger.
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New York Times
New York
Mr. Bryan
Vernon
Ten Billion a Year for Cold War With Russia
Senator Millard Tydings California Democrat chairman of the armed services committee argues the cold war costs the United States at least 10 billion dollars annually. He says postwar diplomacy failures drive the expense and criticizes current talk of defensive alliances and military aid. He notes the Marshall Plan helps recovery but fuels domestic production and questions long term sustainability for a peacetime world economy.
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Millard Tydings
Maryland
Armed Services Committee
Russia
United States
Tydings
America
Roosevelt
Austria
Germany
Taft Advocate Hails Senator Taft and Taft Hartley Act
Paul M. Wagner of 2631 2nd St NW argues in favor of Senator Robert A. Taft, praising the Taft Hartley Act as fair and necessary. He contends unions lack coercive power, transparency in finances exists, and elections are secret. Wagner urges Ohio voters to reelect Taft in 1950 and supports a pro Taft campaign stance.
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H. Moore
Taft
Moore
House of Representatives
Truman
Senator Taft
Congress
U. S. Army
Senate
Ohio
Robert A. Taft
Paul M. Wagner
2Nd St NW
Pennsylvania to Fund Youth Camp at Indiantown Gap
The state will spend $600000 biennially to run Indiantown Gap Military Reservation as a state camp for underprivileged city boys with 2500 plus campers planned this year. If successful, girls may join next year. Administration rests with the Department of Public Instruction and campers are chosen through public schools with state transportation.
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Trange
Wonderful
Pennsylvania
Indianatown Gap
State Department of Public Instruction
Indiantown Gap
Pennsylvania National Guard
North Atlantic Pact seen as new attempt at lasting peace
A reflective critique argues the North Atlantic Security Pact mirrors the League of Nations and questions its survival. The piece cites past errors by Britain and leaders like Kaiser Wilhelm Hitler Stalin, warns of a looming conflict, and challenges economists to weigh credibility against political rhetoric.
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Geneva
United States
Berlin
Kaiser Wilhelm
Adolph Hitler
Josef Stalin
British
Europe
England
Hitler
Stalin
Greece
Near East
Hat Criticism Sparks Domestic Dispute Comedy Verdict
An absurd courtroom scene features a wife accusing her husband of harshness over hats. The judge jokes about hat taste, declares the husband a brute, and issues a verdict of contempt while quipping about Easter and a shopper wife. An optimist quip closes the piece.
Philadelphia man steals car to attend buddy’s trial
A Philadelphia man stole a car to reach the trial of a friend who had stolen a vehicle. Both likely will seek probation instead of jail, hoping to serve it in another man’s limousine.
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Philadelphia
Gotham Bugle and Banner Quiz Jimmy Walker Songs
Gene Fow ler's grand book on Jimmy Walker reveals the late mayor wrote several songs beyond Will You Love Me In December As You Do In May. Listed are Goodbye Eyes of Blue I Like Your Way After They Gather the Hay Kiss All The Girls For Me There's Music In The Rustle of a Skirt In The Valley Where My Sally Said Goodbye and With The Robins I'll Return.
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YE Gotham Bugle & Banner Weed
Gene Fowler
Jimmy Walker
Sally
Gene
Jimmy
Mike O’toole
Lewis Gannett
Irving Berlin
Father Duffy
Canton Postmaster Appointed as Century Begins
Up Through a Century notes Samuel Slanger named Canton postmaster with Vice Postmaster Dunbar resigning. Italy confiscates Catholic Church property but pays clergy. Pope’s horses drafted for army. 40 years ago a reinforced concrete bridge over the Tuscarawas in Massillon was approved. E C Burns and C Zimmer named extra police during vacations. 25 years ago padlocks removed from 13 Canton area liquor raid sites. owners placed on probation. Bavarian Diet elections see extreme nationalists, Ludendorff, Hitler supporters gain on moderates and socialists.
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Samuel Slanger
Canton
George Dunbar
Republic of Italy
Tuscarawas River
Massillon
Stark County Board of Commissioners
E. C. Burns
C. Zimmer
Smith
Columbia Heights
Common Pleas
Agler
Ludendorff
Adolph Hitler
Abandonment of Stark Electric Line Between Canton and Salem
The Ohio Public Utilities Commission announced approval to abandon the 32 mile Stark Electric Line between Canton and Salem after ten years of financial losses. Curtis M. Shelter of Canton, president of the firm, cited unprofitable operations for a decade. Concurrently, Italian forces invaded Albania, and heavy fighting was reported.
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Stark Electric
Canton
Salem
Ohio Public Utilities Commission
Curtis M. Shelter
Albania
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