The Canton Repository Births in 1949 and history notes
The Canton Repository, a Brush-Moore publication in Canton Ohio, lists its long history from The Ohio Repository founded 1815 through numerous name changes and consolidation. The issue dated Tuesday June 21 1949 notes issue details, circulation rules, and subscription rates.
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Brush- Moore Newspapers Inc
Market Avenue
Fifth Street
Canton
Ohio
Congress
Ohio Repository
Stark County Republican
Canton Reposito
Theanton Repository
Canton Daily Repository
Evening Repository
Canton Repository
Canton Daily News
Stark County Democcrat
Associated Press
Story
Brooks & Anit
New York
New York Central Building
Philadelphia
Fidelity-Philadelhia Trust
Chicago
Nichigan Avenue
Cleveland
Euclid Avenue
Boston
Staller
Los Angeles
Guaranty Building
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Audit Bureau OF Circulation
Inland Daily Press Association
Governors Conference Shapes National Tax Reform Debate
The annual governors meeting in Colorado Springs focuses on revamping the U.S. tax system to reduce federal excess and reallocate funds to state and local needs. Governors discuss budgets rivaling prewar levels and the political potential of a campaign built on spending restraint rather than expansion.
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Colorado Springs
U.S. Senate
White House
United States
New York State
Washington
Two Sides of Academic Freedom Debate in Education
The piece contrasts academic freedom with state oversight amid a House Un American Activities Committee inquiry into textbooks. It argues for a balance between educators’ right to teach and learners’ and parents’ right to freedom from falsehood, noting private colleges' curriculum duties and some advocates’ extreme views.
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Hages
House un-American Activities Committee
United States
Propaganda Clash As Communists Target Czech Catholic Church
The piece argues the Communist drive against the Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia reveals their weakness in hiding truth. It notes the church’s strong position, the possible imprisonment of Archbishop Beran, and compares to Mindszenty, explaining religion would be strengthened if terror occurs.
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Hose
Czechoslovakia
Russia
Beran
Cardinal Mindszenty
Hungary
Relation of Inventories to Sales Behind Economic Trends
The article explains that inventory levels relative to sales best indicate current and near-term business conditions. It notes prices distort value, wartime shifts, and postwar adjustments, with percent relations to end-month inventories tracked for manufacturing, wholesale, and retail sectors. It cautions that declines forecast worse times and rises signal better prospects.
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Boccc
Wcotesecer
Sibeccae Oe
The Dissenters Dread The Good Old Summertime
The piece lampoons summer misery among those who suffer rose fever hay fever hives sunburn and panting. It notes indoor types turn tomato red and peel while others sweat and itch. It jokes about female companions and visiting relatives during vacation and warns of rising tempers in the heat.
Target Practice By H. V. Wade
A humorous column notes Harry Wade's program echoes a woman driver in a one way street. California scientists toy with a three eyed lizard while a pink elephant with a fog light escapes notice. New York murmurs of a 10 cent rate for pay phones and rent spikes for sharpshooters. Russians adopting American corn flakes appear. A 1970 forecast hints at red movie industry misfires in a blizzard scene.
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Harry
New York
New World Labor Group Forms A Non Communist International
A preliminary Geneva meeting on June 25 aims to launch a non-Communist international federation of labor uniting free trade unions worldwide. The move excludes Soviet controlled unions and challenges the Soviet dominated World Federation of Trade Unions, signaling a turning point in American labor history with AFL and CIO cooperating in Geneva. Israel remains nonaligned and will not join the new federation.
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International Federation of Labor
Geneva
Karl Marx
Workers of All Lands
Russia
A.F. L
C.I.O
A.F.L
C.ilo
World Federation of Trade Unions
W.F.T.U
Paris
C.I.U
International Federation of Trade Unions
International Labor Organization
League of Nations
United Nations
New Zealand
Israel
W.F. T.U
London
New World
New “International
Marshall Plan
Australia
Canada
General Labor Federation
New
Labor Party
George Washington Master Mason Statue Progress at Gorham Foundry
The 17 foot statue of George Washington in Masonic regalia is being cast in bronze at Gorham Manufacturing in Providence after 22 plaster sections were worked into molds. Sculp tor Bryant Baker and eight craftsmen, under an $85,000 commission, expect unveiling on February 22 in Alexandria Virginia before a Masonic gathering.
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Gorge Washington
Gorham Manufacturing Company
Providence
R. I
Bryant Baker
New York
George Washington Masonic National Memorial Association
Association
Alexandria
George Washington
Alexandria-Washington Lodge 22
Baker
Washington
Ashington
Houdon
Windsor
Conn
Masonic Memorial
Gorham Foundry
Patrick Henry
al Smith
Derby
Charley Keck
Lower East Side
Carl Milles
National Memorial Hall
Falls Church
Ferrari
Thought Control in Russia by GAULT MacGOWAN
A Russian defector report describes intensified Marxist Leninist propaganda across the Soviet Union with 22,000 political schools in Ukraine and 1,000 district schools. He says attendees are pressured, higher education tied to propaganda, and Voice of America broadcasts seen as dangerous, contrasting Moscow radio with American programming. He notes Radio Day May 7 and claims radios are fixed to Moscow, while American networks reach military barracks.
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Munich
Talin
West
Soviet Union
Voice of America
Ukraine
Lenin
Marx
G. I
East
Germany
Moscow
Alexander Popov
D.P. Barrack
American Forces Network
Two GIs Do Vassar Class With 249 Women
Wartime veterans Herman Hetzler and Johnathan Slesinger finish 1949 Vassar graduation among 249 female classmates. The letter-writer praises their determination and compares their feat to heroism, noting reactions, campus jokes, and the enduring value of their degree. The piece also touches on a brewery strike, Roosevelt Jr. in Congress, a car ad, and John Gunther's new Russia book.
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Herman Hetzler
Johnathan Slesinger
Vassar
America
G.I
John Gunther
Russia
Remembering debt and a clever child in late era talk
The piece recalls Americans' worry about debt, mentions P L T claiming a smart kid who names video sets, and notes shifts in broadcasting. It also touches on a channel swimmer in the past and six mine work stoppages described by John L. Lewis, stressing language choice and public sentiment.
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John L. Lewis
Century Fron Vintage Notes From Canton Chronicle
A letter from O P Stidger describes his wagon train prize pony bought for 52 dollars as they travel west near the Big Blue River while serving as train captain. Also noted: Beaver Falls excursionists miss a late train due to misreading time as Canton time. Lt U S Grant III named military aide to Taft and superintendent of the Army and Navy Building after marriage to Elihu Root's daughter. A Moosic powder plant blast injures no one but breaks many windows. The first photograph sent by radio appears in Le Matin of Paris showing Gustave Ferrie at the Eiffel Tower wireless station.
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Canton
O. P. Stidger
California
Big Blue River
St. Joseph
Independence
Beaver Falls
Meyers Lake
Pennsylvania Railroad
U. S. Grant III
Taft
Army and Navy
Elihu Root
New York
Moosic
du Pont
le Matin
Paris
Gustave A. Ferrie
Eiffel Tower
London
Edouard Belin
Gehrig quits Yankees due to paralysis amid salary plan
Ten years ago Lou Gehrig, star first baseman of the New York Yankees, was forced to retire from play because of chronic infantile paralysis. He would receive his regular salary through the season’s end. In Canton, Reuben Kramer and James J. Stork were named chief justice and associate justice at the Buckeye Boys State in Columbus.
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Lou Gehrig
New York Yankee
Reuben Kramer
James J. Stork
Canton
Buckeye Boys’ State
Columbus
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I.F.T.U
I.L.O
Netherlands
Richard K. Winslow
NEW York Herald-Tribune
Julius Ferrari
Gault Macgowan
H. S. Phillips
Vassar Grads
U.S. Army
Yale
Harvard
Princeton
York
Eisenhower
Elmer
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr
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