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Newspaper
The Canton Repository
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1941
Page
4
Classified note from The Canton Repository listing a private phone exchange for all departments at 5101. The item appears as a short contact reference, likely an internal directory or telephone listing for a Canton organization or building.
The National Economy league prices how 1 783 000 000 could be saved in next year’s federal budget while the Chamber of Commerce cites at least two billion more for defense by cutting non defense spending. Morgenthau warns reductions are needed to avert inflation as government demand and defense costs lift federal outlays. Saving two billion would ease taxpayer burden and curb public spending power driving inflation.
Mussolini remains hopeful of a Roman empire after Italy loses its last Ethiopian foothold and faces British offensives in Libya. Germany leads Africa strategy as Italian prestige wanes, communications to Eritrea and Somaliland fail, and Italy dwindles rather than expands.
War Department Public Relations boasts Production More Than Doubled In 20 Days from two TNT plants. The article argues such 111 percent increases are misleading and should be treated skeptically until meaningful figures emerge.
A suburban resident complains that some hunters ignore private property and safety, firing buckshot near his home, damaging fences and threatening his family. He contrasts cautious sportsmen with marauding hunters, saying the issue has persisted since hunting season began.
Washington observers sketch a dire path as von Ribbentrop hosts strawmen from conquered nations to forge a new European order. With Moscow and Leningrad potentially emptied, Hitler risks a street by street battle while Russia shifts industry east and south, hampering German aims.
In the advertisements a cigar smoking man is a hit with women yet cunning and untrustworthy while a wide brim hat wearing upper class figure with a pipe signals status. Cowboys look silly without a horse, ads show men with idealized bodies and immaculate outfits, and women and children are portrayed with perfect features and charm. The passage mocks the idealized images in advertising and questions the manipulation of perception.
A London dispatch notes a major blaze Saturday Oct 30 destroying The Grand Storehouse and Small Armory. The fire dominated columns in the papers, with warnings of its extent and damage across the city.
A World War II era brief notes the 25 years ago advance on Bucharest continued despite Romanian resistance. German forces crossed the Danube and neared the Argesha river with Berlin reporting Romanian losses and 2,500 prisoners and 21 cannon captured. Also noted is R E Breed of New York set to lead Central Power Co. and a flour price drop of 40 cents per barrel.
Quote from John Humbard, engineer in charge of the trans Panama road, noting that the work demands more than engineering skill and that keeping laughter alive helps in the project.
A Chinese official cites a striking cost comparison about building a hole versus filling it, during a discussion on the Burma road with Daniel Arnstein, an American traffic expert. The remark underscores the practical or symbolic costs of wartime logistics and road access.
A quotation from Thomas J. Watson, an art collector, likens a woman’s shopping for a picture to the assurance she shows when selecting shelf paper for her kitchen. The remark emphasizes decisive taste and practical judgment in domestic purchases.
George Formby speculates in the London News Chronicle that the insult twerp may derive from Lancashire terms twillip or Twollop, suggesting regional language influences on his stage diction. He frames the etymology as conjecture within a broader linguistic note.
The history traces modern Japan from 1867, detailing territorial expansion from four main islands to vast gains including Korea, Manchukuo, Formosa, and Sakhalin. It covers treaties, protectorates, and mandates, noting shifts after World War I and aggressive campaigns from 1931 to 1940, with Japan’s current territory and population relative to the United States.
Washington correspondent reports the big waste paper project shredding 21 million World War II draft records stored in 20,000 steel cabinets. The 3.5 million inducted files are kept. the rest are shredded and baled for storage against future paper shortages. WPA clerks sort and feed the sheets to a basement chopper, then bale and ship them to reserves.
This Is Ohio XRT describes Fort Finney at the mouth of the Great Miami River established in October 1785 to host a conference with the Shawnee and other tribes in the Miami country. Capt William Finney led the stockade garrison from Fort McIntosh. Delegates Gen Richard Butler George Rogers Clark Samuel H Parsons signed a treaty January 31, 1786, which the Shawnees soon ignored as hostilities resumed. The fort was abandoned after the treaty, with ruins visible as late as 1860.
The Turps Ethel argues for reform of marriage rules to favor divorcees without fortunes, claiming current practice harms those without wealth. She urges changes to protect financially vulnerable individuals seeking breakup outcomes.
From Brooklyn Joe Turp letters reveal a social world of money and marriages. A society lady with three previous husbands plans to wed again, while Julie Brown, poor and not in society, struggles to find love. Pink Rosen, Siddy Moore, and Julie’s tangled letters expose schemes and fidelity, ending with Joe affirming love for Ethel and warning Julie to beware Pink’s past.
An old columnist urges readers to avoid prying into others private lives and criticizes overbearing self focus. The piece notes how talkative attitudes and outdated slang reveal age and social pretensions while encouraging restraint in discussing friends families and age related topics.
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