The Canton Repository History and 1949 publication details
A historic note of The Canton Repository tracing its origins from The Ohio Repository in 1815 through merges and name changes to The Canton Repository by 1949. Includes publishing milestones, ownership, distribution, and modern contact and subscription information.
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Brush-Moore Newspapers Inc
Market Avenue
Fifth Feet South
Canton
Ohio
Congress
Ieee Te Ee Ee
Stark County Repubican
Canton Repository & Republican
Canton Repository
Canton Daily Repository
Evening Repository
Canton Daily News
Stark County Democrat
Associated Press
Pressure Groups and the 81st Congress in Truman Era
Truman warns that pressure groups will be disappointed when the 81st Congress is tallied. He notes minorities overplayed their hand since 1948, with Henry Wallace and the Dixiecrats failing to rally votes. He cites labor and farm voices as examples and argues skepticism toward minority claims grows in Congress.
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Truman
Congress
Henry Wallace
Henry
Labor Union
Washington
Dewey
White House
Albany
It's Only Money in Railroad Wage Settlement
Railroads face a yearly 640 million cost to satisfy 16 non operating unions under a wage settlement lifting wages to 110 percent of prewar levels and adding about 20 percent via the 40 hour week. With traffic trends down and rate hikes looming, weaker lines may fail, while unions push for more pay amid market shifts.
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Blue Fairy
Senators Warn on Tax Increases and Bureaucracy Growth
Taft says he will back tax hikes if deficits persist with no spending cuts. Byrd questions how payroll can be restrained as bureaus keep expanding. Civil service data show the executive payroll rising. 2,094,777 workers, 90,000 more than last year. The piece links bureaucratic growth to cancer as a metaphor for unchecked expansion.
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Enator
Taft
Byrd
Congress
Civil Service Commission
United States
New Atlantic Pact Aims to Unite World for Peace and Defense
The article outlines the North Atlantic Pact as a framework for collective defense and cooperation within the United Nations structure. It notes a military council, potential Russian cooperation, and a broad geographic reach including Latin American states, with a mechanism for U S military action only via congressional decision. It warns of Communist influence scrutiny and emphasizes presidential commander in chief authority under domestic law.
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World Organization
League of Nations
United Nations
Soviet Union
U. N
Security Council
Russia
Moscow
U. S. Senate
Congress
United States
Pearl Harbor
Executive
Senate
America
Dorothy Kenyon
New York City
U. N. Commission On the
The 59-Cent Dollar Explained by Joe Fallgy
Letter from Joe Fallgy of Fallgy's Auto Supply in Poker Junction critiquing a 59-cent dollar calculation. He claims taxes consumed 59 percent of his $4,000 net income, detailing federal state city and misc taxes to support his point. The missive targets Prof Theodore Swiggmore of Quagmire College and references past local incidents.
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Theodore Swiggmore
Quagmire College
Quagmire
Kan
Baldy
Feather River
Toroni
Old Prince
United States
Atlantic Union Committee pushes for world federal government
Justice Roberts heads the Atlantic Union Committee seeking a federal union of democracies within the United Nations. The plan envisions a single world citizenship with its own government, defense, money, and postal system to be pursued through public debate and a North Atlantic Pact ratification drive.
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Supreme Court
Owen J. Roberts
Atlantic Union Committee
Old America
Roberts Committee
United Nations
United Nations Organization
Union of Nations
Justice Roberts
Germany
Earl E. Hart
Cleveland
Harold Burton
Harold Stassen
Roberts
Congress
America
United States
Conference of Nations
Did Anything Change Spring reminiscence column reflects on changes over time
A readers column recalls how spring once felt grand with outdoor pastimes, clean weather, and carefree family life. It contrasts bygone joys with present flat routines of home repairs, weather worries, and shifting plans while noting spring itself has not changed.
Target Practice By H. V. WADE
Those inexperienced train rob bers had none of the smooth technique of Jesse James, let alone the artistry of John L. Lewis who holds up railroad systems. A complaint that circuses are not holding to the party line is voiced in red Russia. The pink lemonade for one thing is too weak and evasive.
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Jesse James
John L. Lewis
Red
Russia
Equal Rights Amendment Debate Moves Through Congress
The Equal Rights Amendment resurfaces in Congress after Senate judiciary committee approval. Support by President Truman and major groups includes National Woman's Party and NEA, while opposition cites threats to protective labor laws and family benefits. Notables like Eleanor Roosevelt oppose. Doro thy Kenyon critiques U N status links.
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Congress
U. S
Senate Judiciary Committee
Truman
National Woman’s Party
National Education Association
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
National Association of Women Lawyers
American Women’s Medical Association
C.I.O
A.F.L
League of Women Voters
American Association of University Women
Y.W.C.A
Supreme Court
Frankfurter
Frances Perkins
Eleanor Roosevelt
United States
When Openings Sparked Riot in Historic Theaters
Lucius Beebe recalls rough opening nights in 1920s era venues like Piper's Opera House and the Shubert New Haven. The piece notes misremembered details about Dr. Eli Mix and J. Fred Baker while praising hardy show folk and a town once lively, now quiet.
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Piper’s Opera House
Virginia City
Tombstone
Shubert
New Haven
Conn
Eli Mix
Andy Dumbrowski
J. Fred Baker
Lucius Beebe
Gardella Fight Might Prompt Truman Reinstatement Move
If Danny Gardella wins his fight for reinstatement, President Truman may pursue reinstatement as well. The question centers on whether Harry Truman held a reserve clause.
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Danny Gardella
Truman
Washington
Harry
Green banana tale and southern visit rumors in wartime notes
The clippings mix a Virginia judge Walter Kelly story about a fruit seller with a black eye and a joke about green bananas. They also muse whether Harry Truman is touring the South or behind rebel lines and quote a Florida horse owner aiming to retire a 16 year old once earnings hit 250 dollars.
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St. Patrick’s Day
Virginia
Walter Kelly
Ima Dodo
Harry Truman
Shadda Haddim
Florida
Associated Newspapers, Inc
Century-Old Snapshot of Brazil, Cotton Steamer Fire
A century ago a Brazil republican experiment faced defeat as government troops clashed near Pernambuco. The steamer Convoy transporting 3000 bales of cotton from Memphis to New Orleans burned, leaving two drownings.
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Brazil
Pernambuco
Memphis
New Orleans
Canton businessman Lahm elected head of local aeronautic group
25 years ago Frank S. Lahm of Canton and Paris, vice president of the International Aeronautic Federation, was elected president of a local temporary businessmen’s organization to form a Canton chapter of the National Aeronautic Association. He would return from Paris in a month. Gen Pershing had stayed in France since December writing his World War I memoirs.
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Frank S. Lahm
Canton
Paris
France
International Aeronautic Federation
National Aeronautic Association
Lahm
Gen. Pershing
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Benjamin Witkin
Coroner Mix
Jim Corrigan
Beebe
Freddie Graves
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