Canton Repository Private Phone Exchange Ad
The Canton Repository header announces an established date of March 30, 1815 and lists a private phone exchange for all departments at extension 5101.
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Canton
Ohio Repository
Stark County Repub Mean
Canton Repository & Rebiean
Banton Repository
Canton Dailyepository
Evening Repository
Canton Resitory
Bet
Canton Ily News
Stark County Democrat
Ordinary strategist calls for simple war plan
The piece argues ordinary people can win World War II by driving Axis powers back within their borders and fighting hard. It dismisses grand coalitions and high commands as wasteful, urging action by the United States and its allies with a practical, no-nonsense approach and cautioning against overreliance on councils or leadership credits.
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Germany
Japan
Italy
United States
Pearl Harbor report shows mixed lessons from surprise attack
Secretary Knox’s official Pearl Harbor report portrays the attack as a harsher lesson than hoped yet not as dire as feared. It criticizes Hawaii’s lax alertness and fifth column influence, noting Japan’s surprise could have ended the war quickly. The fallout may strengthen resolve despite the heavy price.
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Knox
Pearl Harbor
United States
Hawaii
Japan
Rev Holmes Faces Pacifist Dilemma at New York Church
Reverend John Haynes Holmes of Community church in New York signs an undated resignation to be used if his pacifist stance becomes embarrassing. He refuses to condone war yet seeks a fair balance, sparking debate among his congregation about duty, principle, and national safety amid the war context.
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John Haynes Holmes
Community Church
New York City
United States
Germany
Hitler Retreats Behind Winter Front in Russia
News from Ashington reports that Hitler's forces are withdrawing to a hastily rebuilt winter front on old Red defenses around rivers marshes and hills. The retreat reveals supply issues manpower limits and a need to regroup for a spring offensive while Soviet equipment needs and potential Libyan campaign developments loom.
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Ashington
Hitler
Leningrad
Moscow
Caucasus
Red Legions
Berlin
Christmas Deadline Rumination on Procrastination
A reflective column ridicules last minute holiday shopping as timeless procrastination. The piece notes annual delays since Taft era, mocks "deadline" pressure, and imagines fictional cures like postponing gifts to midsummer while exposing human habit and market mayhem.
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William Howard Taft
White House
Santa Claus
Century-old Georgia pay cut a prompt action tease
A Georgia house of delegates measure cuts member pay to four dollars a day for thirty days and two fifty thereafter with the editor noting it could spur prompt action. The item sits among a column of brief historical notes from multiple eras.
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Georgia House of Delegates
Sid Hillman Declares Free Workers Can Outproduce Any Slaves
Sidney Hillman, labor member of OPM, asserts that free Americans can outproduce and outfight any combination of slave peoples, framing a wartime production mindset and labor mobilization statement.
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Sidney Hillman
OPM
Thought For Today on Remedy in Human Nature
Samuel Johnson asserts a universal safeguard against tyranny exists in human nature, offering a hopeful perspective that moral resilience can preserve liberty under any government.
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Samuel Johnson
Civilian defense must be reorganized for real wartime
Walter Lippmann argues that the Office of Civilian Defense under Mayor LaGuardia and Mrs. Roosevelt is a holdover from prewar optimism. He urges separating military and civilian tasks, placing home defense under the War Department, and building a true civilian effort focused on self-reliance, relief, and support for forces, the navy, and war industries.
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Navy
Continental
United States
Pacific Coast
Atlantic Coast
War Department
Tax shares shift as local governments lose ground
Across the United States Canada and the United Kingdom local tax collections declined as national or dominion bodies gained share. US local taxes fell from 48 to 34 percent between 1930 and 1940 while federal, state, and local distribution shifted with rising federal and dominion contributions.
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United States
United Kingdom
Canada
Dominion
They Say We Will Not Hide Facts From the Country
A wartime quote compilation cites President Roosevelt and others urging disclosure of facts to defeat Hitler. Floyd B. Odlum and Donald M. Nelson are named in support of mobilizing resources and public resolve against the Axis powers.
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Roosevelt
Hitler
Floyd B. Odlum
OPM
Little Tokyo in Los Angeles Faces War Time Attention
In 1941 a feature on Los Angeles Little Tokyo outlines a growing, self contained Japanese community. It notes the 40 000 Japanese in the area and Terminal Island residents were active farmers fishermen and traders with a distinct culture. The piece also mentions the FBI crackdowns anti American sentiment and the shift in daily life including new porcelain headrests.
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OS Angeles
Calif
Little Tokyo
Los Angeles
Col. Tillinghast l’'Hommedieu Huston
New York Yankees
Altamaha River
Brunswick
New York
Deep South
Col. Huston
Suns
California
Terminal Island
Federal
Fish Harbor
Man o’War Road
San Pedro Harbor
Pacific Fleet
FBI
United States
Tokyo
Togo Tanaka
A Break For Susie And Aims Of Housework
Ruth Millett argues that trouble with hiring and keeping a maid of all work may improve employer employee relations. The piece notes how women, after hiring help, can become perfectionists, blameful, and neglectful, then gain insight once able to do without Susie. A concluding Shaw quote contrasts aging writers with organizers.
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Susie
NEA. Inc
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