Canton Repository history and 1949 publication details
The Canton Repository listing its long history from 1815 through 1949, naming mergers and name changes, Associated Press membership, and national offices. It includes subscription rates, carrier and mail pricing, and submission rules as of Wednesday March 16, 1949.
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Canton Repository
Brush-Moore Newspapers Inc
Market Avenue
Fifth Penet South
Canton
Ohio
Postoffice
AP News
Story
Brooks & Finley
New York
New York Central
Philadelphia
Fidelity-Philadelhia Trust
Chicago
Nichigan Avenue
Cleveland
Euclid Avenue
Boston
Statler
Los Angeles
Guaranty Building
Eember American Newspaper Publishes Association
Audit Bureau OF Circulation
Inland Daily Press Association
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Stark
Tuscarawas
Carroll
Columbiana
Portage
Summit
Wayne
Holmes Counties
Question of Intent for Canton Housing Authority Powers
Public discussion centers on what Canton Metropolitan Housing Authority will do with Don Mellett Homesteads and other leased projects. The council is urged to back an application to acquire outright ownership and set its own policies, requiring a clear statement of proposed regulations under Ohio law.
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Canton Metropolitan Housing Authority
Don Mellett
City Council
Ohio
The Clock Stopped and Time Went On
ME-Van H. Seagraves of Portland, Oregon expects a baby this summer while known as Cistie Dahl from Roosevelt era child stars. The piece reflects on how a paused public consciousness from 1933 to 1950 shaped memory of the thirties and forties and the world’s remake.
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van H. Seagraves
Portland
Ore
Shirley Temple
Jackie Coogan
Herbert Hoover
Mae West
Mel Harder
Bobby Feller
Government in Balance in a Divided Power Era
The piece argues Congress resists being a rubber stamp and the Supreme Court tones its rulings by constitutional interpretation. It highlights tensions among Taft Hartley rent controls and cloture, noting founders sought deliberation, compromise and law over executive edicts and minority blocs. The tone is reflective on checks and balances in current Washington dynamics.
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MCS
Washington
Congress
Truman
Senate
Republic
German conservatives meet in Moscow with West German leaders
Walter Lippmann notes reports that Rudolf Nadolny and other western German figures met in Moscow with Andreas Hermes and Ludwig Erhard to discuss Germany's future. He argues such talks were likely and warn that refusing four power talks risks partition, while engaging could shape a neutralized, unfortified German state.
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Germany
Moscow
Rudolf Nadolny
Andreas Hermes
Christian Democratic Union
Farmers’ Organization
Hermann Puender
Ludwig Erhard
Hermes
Puender
Erhard
Reuters
Herr Nadolny
Soviet
Nauheim Kreis
Russia
James Boyd Endures Volatile Clash Over Mine Safety
James Boyd, head of the U S Bureau of Mines, has worked without pay for 14 months amid attacks by John L Lewis and a partisan clash over mine safety. Lewis has ordered coal mines closed in protest, while Boyd, born in Australia and educated at California Tech and Colorado School of Mines, remains firm about leadership and authority.
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John L. Lewis
James Boyd
U. S. Bureau of Mines
Boyd
Interior Department
Lewis
U. S
Bureau
Army
Senate
Truman
Australia
America
Death Valley
Pacific
James
California
Mr. Boyd
California Tech
West
Canada
Colorado School of Mines
Colorado College
Krug
Bureau of Mines
Washington
Congress
Mr. Lewis
North American Newspaper Alliance
Pigeons and City Messes Prompt a Moral Note
Jefferson A. Mossgrove writes from R D 7% urging readers to blame careless people for litter and graffiti rather than pigeons. He cites downtown buses and rural highways as examples and asks for better disposal of trash.
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Canton
Jefferson A. Mossgrove
The Coal Shutdown and the Taft Hartley Debate
The piece argues that a mine workers union leader may legally impose a shutdown under Taft Hartley while coal owners would face antitrust charges for similar actions. It contends Congress fears labor unions and warns of the dangers of closed shop power, urging focus on public impact and prices.
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United Mine Workers
Congress
John L. Lewis
Truman
Labor
Tobin
Senate Labor Committee
Miners’ Board of Strategy
Lewis
Overshoes in Public Domain Create Winter Swap Comedy
A humorous look at overshoes slipping into public domain theory as families fight for dry feet. The scene shows mixups and be fuddled ownership where old and new overshoes pass among wearers, leaving someone always without. The father and son joke about trading shoes each season and the perpetual overshoe scramble.
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Papa
Warning to Circuses From Soviet Press
A Soviet controlled art paper denounces Western circus acts and calls for stripping circuses of clowns and acts. It demands all performers obtain a politburo card and threatens shooting jugglers, clowns, acrobats, and animals to prevent Western influence on Russian children.
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Russia
Siberia
Politburo
Vanishing Americanisms On the Edge of Prohibition Era
Column notes slang and headlines from a bygone era. The piece mocks 85 cent dinners rides for a nickel and quirky ads. It mentions a robed actor impersonator, a New York gambling party case, and a senator railing at government pamphlets.
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New York
Century of affairs recalled in a local paper item
A century of notes surveys 100, 40 and 25 years of events. It recalls a revival at the Methodist Church in New Philadelphia with 160 conversions, religious toleration in Turkey, Swedish Lapland missions, Hawaii church growth, a Catholic bishop appointment for Cleveland, Taft urging tariff revision, an experimental airplane by H R Brown of Minerva, Berlin fashion reports on women’s ankles and shoe trends.
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Methodist Church
New Philadelphia
Turkey
Lapland
Sandwich Islands
Hawaii
Cleveland
Msgr
John Farrely
American College At
Rome
Bishop Horstmann
Farrely
Nashville
Tenn
Congress
Taft
H. R. Brown
Minerva
Germany
Berlin
Nazi takeover of Czechoslovakia and exiled leaders in Chicago
Ten years ago Hitler seized all of Czechoslovakia to “protect” it after Slovakia declared independence. On the front page Eduard Benes and Thomas Mann, both Nazi refugees, chat in Chicago where Benes lectured at the University of Chicago. Rev Wolford marks eighth year as pastor at the Christian Church in Shreve and preached in Ripley.
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Hitler
Czechoslovakia
Slovakia
Eduard Benes
Thomas Mann
Chicago
Benes
University of Chicago
R. M. Wolford
Christian Church
Shreve
Ripley
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Walter Lippmann
Ooner
Europe
Rhine
Loire
Pyrenees
Elbe
James Y. Newton
Red Cross
Board of Strategy
By David Lawrence
By Truman Twill
H. I. Phillips
Circus
Karl
L’envoi
Dean Murphy
President Roosevelt
White House
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