Canton Repository newspaper history and prices January 11 1951
A brief historical note on The Canton Repository dating back to its origins in 1815, tracing mergers and renamings through 1930, and listing Associated Press membership and national office contacts. Includes subscription and single-copy rates for daily and Sunday editions, carrier and mail rates for several Ohio counties.
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ST Rs
Brush-Moore Newspapers, Inc
Repository
Market Avenue
Fifth Street
Canton
Ohio
Postoffice
Sc“‘Cn
Ohio Repository
Stark County Republican
Canton Repository & Reublican
Theanton Repository
Canton Daily Repository
Evening Repository
Canton Reository
Canton Daily News
Stark County Democrat
Associated Press
AP News
Stark
Tuscarawas
Carroll
Columbiana
Portage
Summit
Wayne
Holmes
Lausche’s call for local responsibility in Ohio government
Governor Lausche urges local governments to bear more cost burdens through a state subsidy freeze and an austerity push. He proposes a gross receipts tax, restores sales tax under 40 cents, and seeks padlock powers against gambling venues. He enters a third term with a mandate shaped by personality over party.
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Rank J. Lausche
Ohio
99Th General Assembly
Lausche
Common Pleas
99Th Assembly
U N Salvage Presses Moral Stand Over Red China
United States ambassador Warren R. Austin urges the United Nations to adopt a resolution declaring Red China an aggressor in Korea and to pursue measures including boycotts and proportional military action. He warns that without a moral foundation the U N risks collapse like the League of Nations, and stresses defending the principle behind the conflict even if military victory remains uncertain.
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United States
U. N
Red China
Korea
Warren R. Austin
America
U.N
Peiping
Austin
South Korea
United Nations
League of Nations
Japan
Manchuria
Italy
Ethiopia
Europe
Free World
Moscow
Sinclair Lewis dies near sixty six in Sauk Centre era
An obituary appraisal notes that Sinclair Lewis died shortly before age sixty six. It argues he approached the great American novel with sharp eyes and ears but warns his work may reflect caricature over balanced observation. His characters including Kennicott Babbit Dodsworth Arrowsmith Gantry Timberlane are viewed as two dimensional mirrors of three dimensional struggles.
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Qinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis
Carol Kennicott
George F. Babbitt
Sam Dodsworth
Martin Arrowsmith
Elmer Gantry
Cass Timberlane and
Detroit
Korea
Cadillac
Cleveland
Chicago
Pentagon
C. E. Wilson
General Motors
Stalin
U N on the Spot by David Lawrence
The piece argues that US views must be projected beyond the iron curtain to influence nonaligned nations. It criticizes UN timidity toward Red China and warns that appeasement and fear of Russia undermine resolve. It calls for united, principled action and honest self examination to strengthen the UN and deter aggression.
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America
United States
United Nations
Red China
China
Korea
Russia
Munich
Hitler
Stalin
U. N
New York Herald Tribune
Move Over Rover in a Dog Owner’s Atomic Survival
Truman Twill writes a playful yet cautionary magazine piece musing how dogs like Rover and Freedy might fare if an atomic war unfolds. He weighs canine resilience, diet safety, and instinct versus human folly while imagining a peaceful dog’s life amid catastrophe.
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Stinct
Rover
Freedy
Omar Khayyam
Report From the Arsenal of U S Freedom
Detroit editors argue that U S industry especially auto makers must rapidly mobilize for national wartime needs. They note few contracts, long lead times, and praise C E Wilson while urging speed from Pentagon to avert delays and deter Soviet threat.
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Detroit
America
Uncle Sam
Congress
Truman
United States
Kremlin
Pentagon
Charles E. Wilson
General Electric
U.S
Air Force
Better Candidates To The Repository
Readers urge Canton's citizens to boost civic pride by volunteering for municipal government and reflect on how diverse representation can strengthen future elections. A historian notes the McKinley tariff included a two cent sugar subsidy, challenging views on subsidies. A letter questions whether garbage is wasted food and calls for responsible waste management amid rising costs.
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Robert Hartman
Canton
Hartman
E. T. Heald
Stark County
McKinley
U. S. Treasury
U. S
U. S. House of Representatives
Abbott
Texas
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Internal Revenue Department
Korea
Europe
Gracie Allen
Kukla
Fran
Ollie
Fitzgeralds
Dennis James
City clock time change to daylight saving reflects regional ties
In 1950 Canton voters approvedEastern Standard time for city offices, while surrounding areas used fast time. Canton’s stance aimed at aligning with northeast Ohio cities, yet residents and businesses faced adjusting to neighbors’ time as spring nears. John F. Locke comments from Renkert Building.
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Canton
Ohio
John F. Locke Renkert
The Video Gold Rush in Courtroom Comedy
A satirical exchange riffs on roads and screens as automakers face risky drives amid TV stars. A judge and autoist lampoon shifting controls, early video distractions, and the crash of media into daily life with punchy quips about Fifties programming and safety.
Slogan Questioned and a Slot Machine Politics Row
Businessmen conclude postmaster general's order hurts many firms causing heavy losses. Elmer Twitchell denounces Democratic graft likening it to slot machines in government. Truman signs a bill closing slot machine influence. debate on federal workers' longer week and Washington perks.
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Truman
Elmer Twitchell
Democratic Party
Washington
Elmer
White House
Reno
Harry
Vanishing Americanisms in Everyday Speech
The note catalogs quirky phrases and slang examples such as giving a nickel to help with bags or paying a fare, alongside a quotation from Nehru about a world government restoring peace. It cites The Associated Newspapers as the source.
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Nehru
India
Associated Newspapers
Century Later Constitutional Move Bans Divorces
One hundred years ago the Repository noted the Indiana constitutional convention adopted a provision prohibiting the legislature from granting divorces. Forty years ago in Wooster three sisters Lucy Clara and Jennie Hiner obtained wedding licenses for a triple ceremony marrying John Mckeal Clarence Davis and Guy Swartz. Taft ordered reprimand for Navy Cmdr Sims who said Britain could rely on every man dollar and drop of blood in defense.
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Wooster
Lucy
Clara
Jennie Hiner
Daniel Hiner
John Mckeal
Clarence Davis
Guy Swartz
Cleveland
William Howard Taft
Navy
W. S. Sims
London
Britain
United States
Red Grange Speeding Ticket Photo in Tampa
Twenty five years ago Red Grange was pictured receiving a speeding ticket in Tampa Florida where he paid a 25 dollar fine. The text notes a motor tour of the United States in a 25 dollar automobile by Baker Lybe and William Long of Canton and Samuel Crabtree of Orrville on a boat trip home via the Panama Canal.
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Red Grange
Tampa
Fla
United States
Baker Lybe
William Long
Canton
Samuel Crabtree
Orrville
Panama Canal
Reed resigns at McKinley. to lead Monessen grid team
Ten years ago John N. Reed resigned after five seasons as McKinley High School football coach and accepted the head coaching job at Monessen High School in Pennsylvania. Simultaneously United States warships guarded Martinique in the Caribbean amid fears Vichy France and Germany would use French troops there against the Western Hemisphere.
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John N. Reed
McKinley High
Monessen
United States
Martinique
Caribbean
Germany
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