Canton Repository 1949 Brief History and Rates
The Canton Repository traces its history from The Ohio Repository in 1815 through mergers and name changes to The Canton Repository. It lists editions, Associated Press affiliation, editorial offices, and subscription rates effective June 1, 1949. Includes established Sunday edition, carrier and mail rates, and submission requirements for published letters.
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Brush-Moore Newspapers Inc
Repository
Market Avenue
Fifth Street
Canton
Ohio
Congress
Ohio Repository
Stark County Republican
Canton Repository & Republican
Canton Repository
Ublication
Canton Daily Repository
Evening Repository
Canton Daily News
Stark County Democrat
Esas
Associated Press
Story
Brooks & Finley
New York
New York Central
Philadelphia
Fidelity-Philadelia Trust
Chicago
N. Michigan Avenue
Cleveland
Euclid Avenue
Boston
Statler
Los Angeles
Guaranty
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Audit Bureau OF Circulation
Inland Daily Press Association
Stark
Tuscarawas
Carroll
Columbiana
Portage
Summit
Wayne
Holmes Counties
Ea Aasear Tine Emaome Cine
Bea Ec Communications
Rabbits Love Lettuce Dawns for Taxpayers on Hoover Report
The piece argues the Hoover commission's push for a leaner government requires congressional action unlikely to occur as lawmakers would need to oppose past judgments and payroll voting. It cites Dunn Survey warnings that bureaucracy now dominates Congress and fears the tax spend elect cycle, urging a radical shift with a new Congress to reduce statism.
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Hoover Commission
Executive Organization
Congress of the United States
Rogers C. Dunn
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Executive Department
Congress
Eisler in Prague Speaks To European Communists
Eisler sits in on a full dress conference of European Communists in Prague. He argues the real revolution is the fight for human freedom against self appointed dictators. He warns that the Kremlin fears the Marshall Plan and organized efforts to strengthen freedom.
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Cpecprapsic
Eisler
Communist Party
Kremlin
Prague
End of Ford strike leaves costs to workers and firms
Spokesmen for both sides deem the Ford shutdown unfortunate as the union accepts arbitration and the company gains nothing new. Both suffer heavy wage and business losses, borne mainly by employees least able to endure them. The price paid reflects leadership power struggles rather than member welfare.
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Ford Co
Memorial Day Toll Defies Forecasts in Holiday Report
No Holiday for Death shows about 400 fatalities over the three day Memorial Day weekend including roughly 250 traffic deaths, higher than the National Safety Council projection of 215. The piece argues against blaming holidays for loss of life while noting many Americans enjoyed the weekend.
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National Safety Council
Worldwide Slump And Trade Expansion In The West
Walter Lippmann argues that Vishinsky has not seized Paris initiative and that the Kremlin’s shift has opened room for Western powers to oppose partition and occupation. He warns of a fragile postwar recovery under Marshall Plan, with global trade contractions demanding bold, concerted expansion to avert unemployment and bolster a democratic Germany.
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M. Vishinsky
Paris
Warsaw
Kremlin
Vishinsky
Germany
Weimar Republic
Bonn Republic
Great Britain
Belgium
Italy
France
United States
Brown as a Berry
The essay ridicules the sun worship craze and the idea of tanning as healthy. It contrasts past caution with modern craze, noting how social norms shifted from shielding skin to seeking brown tones, lampooning the notion of browning as a sign of vitality. It recalls old habits of avoiding sun and using bleaching lotions.
Washington Congress Wives Face Homesick Season
The piece notes a seasonal urge for congressional spouses to return home as Washington’s social season ends and summer heat nears. It highlights First Lady Bess Truman planning a month in Independence Missouri, while Congress remains in session and staff face crowded venues and unreliable domestic help.
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Washington
Bess Truman
The
United States
Independence
Congress
Congressional
International News Service
Inquiry Opens Over Military Contracts and Political Influence
The House armed services committee orders a full probe into Defense contract allocations tied to campaign fundraising, alleging executives who funded Truman's campaign influenced cancellations and mergers. Officials, regulators, and Wall Street react as questions arise about bias, retaliation, and possible waste of nearly 100 million dollars.
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Teapot Dome
Department of Defense
President Truman
Democratic National Committee
Congress
Senate Armed Services Committee
House Armed Services Committee
Carl Vinson
Georgia
James van Zandt
Pennsylvania
Veterans of Foreign Wars
James Forrestal
Johnson
Navy
Secretary of the Navy
Wall Street
McSweeney aide defends clerical pay in response to Allen critique
T D Horton writes that Robert S Allen charged lawmakers accept kickbacks through clerical help and cites J Parnell Thomas under indictment. Horton notes Iannarelli defends Congress from self serving legislation and questions air time for Congress while highlighting clerk hire funding arguments and omissions in the original piece.
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Congress
U. S
McSweeney
Robert S. Allen
Allen
J. Parnell Thomas
Iannarelli
T. D. Horton
Homer Ave
Tulip tree: a venerable giant of Ohio forests
Letter from Mrs. George N. Graham defends tulip trees against the view they are rare. The species, Liriodendron tulipifera, is a major American forest patriarch found from Appalachia to the Mississippi, tallest in the east, reaching 200 feet with 10 foot trunks, crucial for lumber and paper pulp in North Carolina and Tennessee.
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Ohio
America
China
Appalachians
Middle West
Mississippi
North Carolina
Tennessee
Canton
N. C
United States
Accident prone drivers reveal changing personalities at wheel
A psychiatrist at a convention argues that careless driving mirrors childhood behavior, while Elmer Twitchell counters that the act of driving itself instantly alters a person’s temperament. He cites universal shifts from polite conduct to aggression once behind the wheel, noting even formerly mild individuals become drivers of fury.
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Elmer Twitchell
Thailand Name Change to Thailand Reinstated After Wars
National Geographic notes the Thai kingdom restored the name Thailand after previously using Siam. It explains the 1939 shift under King Ananda Mahidol, wartime occupation by Japan, and postwar repudiation of wartime leaders. The article recalls Siam’s 1946 peace with Britain and UN entry, ending with the king’s 1946 shooting.
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Iam
Thailand
Ananda Mahidol
Siam
Malaya
Burma
Britain
United States
United Nations
Century of city debt and transit strike memories
A historical roundup notes New York City carried a debt of 11 million dollars. Philadelphia faces a motormen strike halting commutes. Zeppelins fly 850 miles in 37 hours but land injuriously near Goep pingen Germany. Canton Opera House appoints E. E. Rutter as manager and transfers former chief to Scranton.
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New York
Target Practice From Current Letters to the Editor
A string of quips and opinions about everyday life appears in letters to the editor. The passages touch on urban tidiness, ballroom instruction, singing, family dinners, radio wave lengths, a new airplane design, and tennis court landings, all with concise observations and humor.
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Walter Lippmann
London
South America
By Truman Twill
Florida
Arizona
Good Eats
By Martha Kearney
Cials
By David Lawrence
Air Forces
FBI
George N. Graham
19Th St NW
H. I. Phillips
Main Street
Dr. Jekyll
Mr. Hyde
National Geographic
University Club of Canton
University Club of Akron
Canton Club
Wendell Herbruck
Howard B. Waha
George F. Zinninger
T. B. Smith
Frederick Broda
Japan
Hanihara
Charles Evans Hughes
Barberton
John Barrymore
H. W. Wade
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