Canton Repository corporate masthead and 1949 notice
A historical front page note lists ownership, editions, and contact details for The Canton Repository across decades, including name changes from The Ohio Repository to The Canton Repository Republican, the Canton Daily Repository, and The Evening Repository. It notes Associated Press affiliation, telescope offices, and subscription rates. The date at bottom shows Sunday, June 19, 1949.
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Brush-Moore Newspapers Inc
Repository
Market Avenue
Fifth Street
Canton
Ohio
Congress
Ohio Repository
Stark Peuatt Keelican
Canton Repository& Republican
Canton Repository
Bogen
Canton Daily Repository
Evening Repository
Canton Repsite
Canton Daily News
Stark County Democrat
Associated Press
Timken marks 50th anniversary with Canton community events
Canton and surrounding communities celebrate Timken Roller Bearing Co. on its 50th anniversary. The article traces population growth from 26,000 in 1890 to 87,000 by 1920, notes Timken’s small start with 40 employees, and highlights the company’s expansion to multiple Ohio towns and beyond. It calls for preserving the favorable environment for enterprise that sustains high living standards in the United States.
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Pemesennte Imgugrs
Timken Roller Bearing Co
Canton
Timken
Ohio
Columbus
Zanesville
Mount Vernon
Wooster
Zoarville
Bucyrus
Colorado Springs
Col
St. Thomas
Ontario
Timken Co
United States
Sickle and Cross Attack Marks New Czech Catholic Clash
In Czechoslovakia a new offensive against the Catholic church by a Communist government targets Archbishop Josef Beran, seen as intimidation to influence politics rather than atheistic aims. The piece traces a Russia linked pattern dating to Peter the Great, arguing the church is treated as a political instrument for state power.
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Czechoslovakia
Josef Beran
Cardinal Mindszenty
Hungary
Russia
Peter the Great
Kremlin
Standard Fixtures in Cleveland Parks Stir City Debate
The Cleveland mayor targets park bums as standard fixtures amid calls to remove them. Critics note the issue masks broader urban neglect and question what, if any, better use exists for grassy slopes and shade trees near congested areas.
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Cleveland
Lake Erie
Saving Ourselves in a Postwar Aid Debate
Congress debates the Marshall Plan funding amount to aid Western Europe while preserving the U.S. economy. The piece traces 1920s lessons, urging restraint on domestic spending, avoiding new entitlements, and citing a Des Moines rally opposing large farm subsidies. It stresses aid to Europe is essential but must not trigger economic collapse at home.
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Western
Europe
United States
Federal Reserve Board
New York Stock Exchange
Des Moines
Iowa
South
New York
Pennsylvania
G.O.P
Westward shift in 1950 census reshapes presidential power
After the 1950 census the Pacific coast states gain electoral clout as California Oregon and Washington likely add House seats and electoral votes. The shift amplifies western influence while shrinking the South and East, forcing candidates to target 48 Pacific votes in future campaigns.
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Oregon
California
Washington
Census Bureau
Senate
New York
Pennsylvania
Far West
Colorado
West
Earl Warren
Congress Faces Crucial Economic Decisions Looming
The article argues Congress must decide over the next two months on balancing the budget, reforming labor laws, reallocating ECA funds, and managing relations with Russia. It warns that lack of White House leadership risks prolonged market fear, while labor unions and antitrust exemptions shape future production and economic policy.
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America
Congress
United States
Europe
Russia
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
White House
Commencement reflections on private colleges and giving
Uncle George reflects on small colleges across the United States, praising their mission to educate beyond public schools and the value of private gifts. He notes donors invest in futures, the role of voluntary funding, and his own check to his college as an honorary gesture honoring service to humanity. He supports both tax funded and privately funded institutions.
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United States
Cotton Corners
Hidden Payroll shows benefits add 15 percent to wages
The U S Chamber of Commerce estimates U S industrial workers received an average of 424 per person in benefits in 1947, excluding wages. The benefits equated to 20.5 hours pay and included pensions, life insurance, workmen's compensation, old age and survivor insurance, discounts, non production bonuses, paid vacations and holidays.
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U. S. Chamber of Commerce
United States
Japs Like U S Aid Too
Japanese officials and SCAP experts say Japan wastes natural resources due to political and administrative failures. They warn reforms in forestry and mining are essential to avoid food shortages and rising costs funded by American taxpayers. Petroleum and asbestos potential are noted, with emphasis on self-sufficiency.
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Tokyo
Douglas MacArthur
U. S
Washington
Nippon
Japan
SCAP
General Headquarters
North American Newspaper Alliance
Thoughts and Prayers on Conscience and Mercy
A compact collection of quoted lines on earthly pride conscience and mercy from classical sources. It links passages from H. K. White I Corinthians I Chronicles and Psalms with reflections on liberty judgment and sacred conscience.
The Bonfire Picture and a Record Player Dream
A couple debates buying a $49.95 record player amid tight finances. I overhear their talk of sacrificing food to afford music, then reflect on consumer desires vs necessity. I buy a red bonfire picture instead, surrendering guidance and keeping the image as a symbol of hunger and longing.
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Fanny
Connelly’s
Century and Balloon News from Canton to California and Beyond
A century ago a letter from O P Stidger of Canton announced plans for a California gold-field wagon train near Independence Missouri. Forty years prior a balloon ascent near Canton carried Dr H W Thompson Col Winn S Ruhl and John Oliver, landing near Osnaburg. A Chicago medical convention sparked a claim tuberculosis is curable and non infectious.
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O. P. Stidger
Canton
California
Big Blue River
Independence
Ohio
H. W. Thompson
Salem
Col
Winn S. Ruhl
Salem News
John Oliver
Lisbon
Osnaburg
Robert Lincoln Watkins
New York Eclectic College
Chicago
American Ecelectic Medical Association
Deaths and feats of early aviation in Canton and beyond
Frank George Carpenter, 70, Canton writer and travel author, died in Nanking, China while staying at 231 15th St NW, home of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. T. Walker. Lt. John A. McCready completed a daring night parachute jump after his engine died, en route from Columbus to Dayton in a DeHavilland. He previously crossed the country in a single day and climbed to 34,000 feet.
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Frank George Carpenter
Canton
Nanking
China
J. F. T. Walker
15Th St
John A. McCready
Columbus
Dayton
DeHaviland
Governor Brick Urges Unlimited Effort to Preserve Democracy
Ten years ago Governor John W. Brick urged about four thousand at the city auditorium to exercise unlimited efforts in preserving democracy at the Stark County Federation of Men's Bible Classes June rally. Roosevelt signaled possible Congress session over a Sol Bloom bill to revise the Neutrality Act and favored repealing the arms embargo with cash and carry sales to combatants.
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John W. Bricker
City
America
Stark County Federation of Men's Bible Classes
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Congress
Sol Bloom
Foreign Affairs Committee
Roosevelt
Target Practice By H. V. WADE
The piece notes the Chinese crafting banknotes into fans and compares folding money to folding to a parade. It observes the Band’s silence after military style parades and hints at a hiatus from Doc Fishbein’s A M A removal. It ends with a reference to Milton Berle.
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Doc Fishbein
Milton Berle
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