Canton Repository front matter and 1950 edition date
The Canton Repository announces its history as a long running Canton Ohio daily with mergers and name changes, official AP affiliations, and multiple bureau offices. It lists subscription rates for various delivery options and notes requirements for publication letters. Monday October 23 1950.
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Ohio Repository
Stark County Republican
Canton Repository & Republican
Canton Repository
Ublication
Cantonailyepository
Evening Repository
Canton Daily News
Stark County Democrat
Associated Press
Persuasion Needed After North Korea’s Defeat at Lake Success
The piece argues North Korea, bruised by setbacks, sees UN diplomacy as words without action. It asserts the Soviet Union is the sole aggressor source and the United States the main counterforce. North Korea learned a costly lesson as Moscow’s aid failed, signaling future caution in Soviet satellite ventures.
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United Nations
Soviet Union
United States
Lake Success
Kremlin
North Korea
Henry L. Stimson Remembered for Service Without Flair
Obituary tribute notes Henry L. Stimson died at 83, listing his service in four presidential cabinets and his rare blend of intelligence and integrity. The piece argues he was immensely valuable to America, though some contemporaries failed to fully appreciate his contributions due to lack of dramatic persona.
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Henry L. Stimson
Stimson
United States
Henry Stimson
Winston Churchill
Churchill
Mr. Stimson
America
Pick Up the Standees During Bus Strike
A wartime style council urges standees to signal riders with an obvious thumb gesture. Drivers, facing fewer buses, seek clarity on who wants a ride and who is waiting for someone else. The message argues standees must drop dignity and clearly display willingness to be picked up.
Money for a Purpose: McKinley Monument Funds Held in Abeyance
The National McKinley Memorial Association turned $135,000 to the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society in 1943 to restore the McKinley Monument within three years after World War II. Five years later the interior was restored with state funds, but the McKinley funds remain, while grounds repairs, especially lagoons, are stalled. Stark County Historical Society urges speedy lagoon work to finish by next summer, reflecting Canton’s demand to advance the monument's condition.
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National McKinley Memorial Association
Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society
McKinley Memorial Association
Stark County Historical Society
Canton
McKinley Monument
Price of victory in Korea frames voters and policy
The United States victory in Korea is seen as a first installment of a long policy arc. The piece argues voters will weigh Korea as victory against its broader Cold War context, tracing relations with Communist Russia from Roosevelt to Truman and predicting lasting domestic costs and political impact.
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Korea
America
Morgan Beatty
Beatty
Russia
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mr. Truman
Mr. Roosevelt
Truman
Roosevelt
Congress
Gabrielson
N. Y
Communist Party
Death of Raymond the Rooster in Ray Manville Tale
A humorous report from T Manville by Truman Twill recounts the death of Raymond the Rooster. The piece blends personal affection with sharp wit as it blames a duck encounter for his decline and condemns the reader for eating eggs, ending with a request for payment if printed.
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Raymond
Ray
Czech Workers Rift Under Red Dictatorship Pins on Prague
The Czech government faces pressure from Moscow over a new trade split as Tucek, ex Czech vice consul, reports workers across coal mines and heavy industry are mounting unrest. He cites church resistance as weak, farmers as fragmented, but workers as the most potent force, potentially driving liberation from within.
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Zurich
Czechoslovakia
Moscow
Prague
Miroslav Tucek
Tucek
U.S.S.R
Counsul
Paul G. Hoffman
ECA
France
Beran
North American Newspaper Alliance
Fundamental entitlement: every laborer keeps what he earns
R A Christian argues against legislation that transfers wealth to favored groups through taxation. He compares two 100 acre farms, showing A’s labor yields full value while B receives support from law. He warns that government spending comes from every citizen and dilutes others’ prosperity. He cites social security and unemployment programs as examples.
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United States
Thoughts for Today Faith and history converge in life and faith
A devotional roundup notes Romans 8 28 affirming that all things work for good for those called by God. It recalls Hopkins urging deep human needs beyond wealth and the cross as history s pivot. Maclaren cites Christ s incarnation and crucifixion as central to prophecy and history s growth.
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God
Christ
Lord
Jesus
Alexander Maclaren
Take It Easy Ike Before a White House Decision
Opinion piece advising Dwight D. Eisenhower to stay at Columbia University rather than pursue the presidency. The writer argues Columbia offers intellectual fulfillment and stability, contrasting it with political Washington, the pressures of national leadership, and the toll on health and nerves. The piece lampoons wartime bravado, favors education over politics, and frames Columbia as a softer, more honorable path.
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Ike Eisenhower
Columbia
Morningside Heights
Washington
White House
Ike
Europe
United States
Gotham Bugle and Banner Satirical Opinion Mix
A collage of jokes and quips from the Gotham Bugle and Banner includes spoof reports on a police inspector, Denise Darcel’s gown misattribution, Jerry Lewis, Joe Louis, and radio hosts. It jokes about drafts, wartime anxieties, and political satire with a light satirical tone and cultural references.
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YE Gotham Bugle & Banner
Denise Darcel
Ringling Brothers
Jerry Lewis
Jimmy Durante
Joe Louis
Joe
Maurice Dreier
the Waldorf
Century-Old Candle Making and 1900s Rail Plans
Readers in the century’s past learned to wick candles by soaking wicks in lime water with nitre then drying before dipping to prevent running tallow and improve clarity. Forty years ago the Postoffice Department planned postal savings tests at 48 second class offices while a railway from Orrville to Cleveland was let for a 50 mile segment as part of a 200 mile line costing $6 million. Twenty-five years ago Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt reported to Chicago’s Field Museum from India after filming excellent specimens of the eyp poli mountain sheep with large horns.
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Postoffice Department
Orrville
Cleveland
Barberton
Coshocton
Zanesville
Theodore and
Kermit Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
India
Field Museum
Chicago
George B Cortelyou dies at 78 in Huntington New York
George B Cortelyou a longtime public servant and founder of the McKinley National Memorial Association died at age 78 at his Huntington New York home. He served as secretary to Presidents Cleveland McKinley and Roosevelt and held posts in the Roosevelt era as secretary of commerce and labor postmaster general and treasury secretary.
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George B. Cortelyou
William McKinley
Huntington
N. Y
McKinley National Memorial Association
Canton
Cleveland
McKinley
Roosevelt
Department of Commerce and Labor
the Treasury
Target Practice By H. V. WADE
A reflective column critiques postwar order and the danger of complacency. It compares photo subjects to a Korean map joke and the image of a bulldog with a calabash pipe, implying fraught oversight and misperception in military planning and public perception.
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Boston
Statler
Los Angeles
Guaranty
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Audit Bureau OF Circulation
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Summit
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Holmes
Peyto
Cal
Ly Mark Sullivan
Owever
T. Manville
Truman Twill
Twillery Tomcat
P. S
Rik Condery
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R. A. Christian
Hower St
North Canton
Mark Hopkins
H. I. Phillips
Mr. Nehru
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East Germany
Associated Newspapers
H. V. Wade
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