The Canton Repository historical note and dates
A dated note lists the Canton Repository history from its 1815 origin as The Ohio Repository through mergers, name changes, and publication milestones up to June 29, 1849. It also details Associated Press membership, special representatives, and various office locations, with subscription and carrier rates. Evidence of early postal classifications and regional distribution is included.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brush - Moore Newspapers Inc
Repositoryuilding
Market Avenue
Fifth Street
Canton
Ohio
Congress
Ohio Repository
Stark County Republican
Canton Repository & Reublican
Baston Repository
Canton Dailyepository
Evening Repository
Canton Reaoarne
Canton Daily News
Stark County Democrat
Associated Press
AP News
Story
Brooks & Winner
New York
New York Central Building
Philadelphia
Fidelity-Philadelhia Trust
Chicago
Nichigan Avenue
Cleveland
Euclid Avenue
Boston
Statler
Los Angeles
Guaranty Building
WEL
Poet Press Association
Landlords Benefit As Rent Control Policy Shifts
The federal housing expediter revises rent control to reward landlord improvements. Landlords may raise rents with tenant consent and official approval, reversing postwar strict limits. The change acknowledges prior misuse to subsidize tenants and shifts focus to broader economic concerns like unemployment under the Truman era.
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Washington
Federal
Truman
Stark County History Society to Publish 672 Page Volume
The Stark County Historical Society announces a fall publication of The Stark County Story Vol. 1 a 672 page history compiling 76 radio scripts by E T Heald plus 156 pages of maps and period photographs from 1805 to 1874. It aims to preserve authentic information and counter careless history.
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Stark County Historical Society
Stark County
E. T. Heald
Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society
Loophole Legalists Split Supreme Court on Quorum Ruling
Four justices opposed a loophole approach as the court upheld a perjury finding despite no quorum. Harold Christoffel, linked to lend-lease material disputes, was declared a liar even without a formal hearing quorum. The decision, 5 to 4, sparks concern over expanding legal loopholes.
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United States
Supreme Court
Vinson
Burton, Jackson
Reed
Russia and the United States and the cold war
The piece argues that domestic policy hinges on Russia, with a 15 billion dollar yearly defense budget framed as deterring war. It discusses diplomacy, the Paris conference, and the value of a modus vivendi to avoid mutual hostility, noting the difficulty of achieving united Western strategy on Germany and postwar Europe.
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United States
Russia
Congress
Paris
Sions
Europe
Moscow
Germany
Japan
China
Nibblers Try Moving It The Wrong Way
In a darkly comic aside Truman Twill extols professional movers and their two mighty advantages the muscles and moving vans. He notes amateurs pack fragile items inadequately stacking heavy loads into light cartons and struggle through doors wasting energy. The piece ends by implying moving is best left to pros.
Side Glances on nibbling moves and moving chaos
The Twils have moved seven times since forming with nibbling as the rule except two exceptions. A moving firm once offered a cheap contract stopping amateur interference, and a flat move with unpaid bills avoided heavy lifting. On the eighth move they prepare to barge in with muscles bulging and cigars gleaming to clean up the mess.
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U. S
Cold War tensions ease as new forces outgrow old formulas
A historian notes that while major issues remain unsettled, global dynamics are shifting. Pravda cites the peace movement, Soviet proposals, and economic strain as calmers, while the West points to liberation movements, Western policy success, and Soviet economic strain. The writer argues world outgrows rigid cold war ideologies as events unfold across Europe and Asia.
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Moscow
Pravda
Soviet Union
Battle of
Bull Run
Paris
Europe
Asia
Globe
Brannan plan gains and Cold War realignment analyzed
The piece argues President Truman leverages the Brannan farm plan to gain political leverage in 1950, contrasts GOP divisions under Wherry, and notes shifts in postwar policy from the Big Four. It critiques the fixed Cold War framework and predicts broader, nuanced future policy in Germany Japan and Asia.
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Truman
Brannan
Congress
Commodity Credit Corp
Senator Wherry
CCC
Wherry
Germany
Europe
Japan
China
Southeast Asia
Middle East
Messrs
Vishinsky
Bevin
Schuman
Acheson
Churchill
Stalin
Roosevelt
Reader letter attacks Paul Robeson over Russia praise
A reader criticizes Paul Robeson for denouncing American freedoms in a rally speech. The letter argues Robeson loves the Soviets more than America and should be exiled to Russia, claiming such views betray Americanism and threaten national values. Mrs. Raymond Houtz, 1362 Ivydale Ave SW, signs the letter.
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America
Mr. Robeson
Russia
Raymond Houtz
Ivydale Ave
Heavyweight talk and political chatter clips
A cappella of reflections on the Louis era, Sabath in Paris, and a tangle of public figures. The dialogue threads through boxing, the Priscilla Coplan trial, Justice Frankfurter testimony, Claudia Hissaker, Judith Eisler deportation, five percenters in Washington, Rita Hayworth, Potsdam, Ali Khan, Franklin D. Roosevelt the Second, and Roosevelt sightings for New York mayoral talk.
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Cox
Sabath
Joe Louis
Ezzard Acheson
Paris
Priscilla Coplan
Shapiro Clytie
Frankfurter
Supreme Court
Harvard
Claudia Hissaker
Chambers Chisibers
Alabama
Judith Eisler
Lilienthal
Indonesia
Washington
100 Years Ago and 40 Years Ago News Snippets
The excerpt recalls 100 years ago noting the death of former President James Knox Polk at 54, his early inauguration, Mexican War, and territorial gains including New Mexico and California with debt settled. It also mentions 40 years ago travelers William Broom and Russell Chase touring Europe, and a Court Street runaway horse incident saving a mother and her two children.
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James Knox Polk
United States
New Mexico
California
Mexico
Nashville
Tenn
State Capitol
Zachary Taylor
Europe
William Broom
Cleveland
Russell G. Chase
Adelaide
Runyon Block
Broom
Arlington Manufacturing Co
Canton
Chase
Sun Vapor Street Light Co
Herman J. Fillier
Court St
5Th
Frank Hammerly
Waco
Lorain Tornado Disaster Kills About 100 People
Twenty five years ago a devastating tornado struck Lorain killing an estimated 100 residents. Mayor George Hoffman reported 12 million dollars in damages as the city lay in ruins. State troops entered, martial law was imposed, and fatalities occurred in the Municipal bathhouse and during State Theater performances. Nearby Sandusky and Canton also suffered wind damage.
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Lorain
George Hoffman
State Theater
Dayton
Sandusky
Canton
Medical society honors mayor with pen and pencil set
Ten years ago at Congress Lake Club Stark County Medical Society presented Mayor Dr. Edward S Folk with a pen and pencil set as a token of esteem. The gift was presented by Dr. L E Leavenworth. Also noted Hoover Co executive Frank G Hoover was re elected vice president of the national council of Boy Scouts of America in New York City.
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Edward S. Folk
Stark County Medical Society
Congress Lake Club
L. E. Leavenworth
Frank G. Hoover
Hoover Co
National Council of Boy Scouts of America
New York City
Target Practice By H V. WADE
Commentary on public figures and cultural references notes the era’s media framing of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. versus his name stigma. It critiques biographical depictions of Jesse James and the impact of Hollywood layoffs, plus political cost-cutting debates and Hoover era rhetoric, ending with a suggestion that shaving costs rather than drastic cuts may occur.
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Stark
Tuscarawas
Carroll
Columbiana
Portage
Summit
Wayne
Holmes
erzSe
Live and
By David Lawrence
By Truman Twill
Ty Walter Lippmann
By Raymond Moley
Midwest
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Henry Wallace
R. Truman
Des Moines
M. Vishinsky
Mr. Acheson
Paul Robeson
Siberian
H. I. Phillips
Garble
Rita Hayworth
Ali Khan
Rita
Niagara Falls
Dewey
Wagner
Elmer Twitchell
Charles Walcott
Howdy Doody
Chary
Ickes
Harold
H V. Wade
F.D.R
Man Jr
Jesse James
John L. Lewis
Hollywood
Joker
Herbert Hoover
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