From the Newsroom: The Canton Repository
Tales From the Rep Morgue
Playlist by From the Newsroom: The Canton RepositoryOn Tales From the Rep Morgue, Canton Repository staff writer Shane Hoover explores stories from the newspaper's 200-year-old archive. https://gatehousenews.com/fromtherepmorgue/24 clip(s) in playlist
Tales from the Rep Morgue S2E9: Levi Lupton Part 2
Scandal ends Levi Lupton's preaching career, but the story doesn't end there, as his descendants discover decades later.
18:18
Tales from the Rep Morgue S2E8: Levi Lupton Part 1
Levi Lupton is a charismatic preacher in Alliance during the early 1900s. Some call him an apostle. Others call him a fraud. Just before Christmas in 1910, Lupton's life crashes in a scandal that becomes national news.
14:37
Tales from the Rep Morgue S2E7: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade
In the late 1930s at least six men with Stark County ties journeyed to Spain to fight in that country's civil war, a conflict that was, in many ways, a preview of World War II.
22:44
Tales from the Rep Morgue S2E6: Skateland
Roller skating, civil rights and racism in early 1960s Canton.
19:14
Tales from the Rep Morgue S2E5: Disease Detective
Almost a century ago, when lethal germs lurked in water and food supplies, a young woman named Helen Parson protected Canton residents from diseases.
13:28
Tales from the Rep Morgue S2E4: Busty Russell
Busty Russell was a legendary performer at Canton's State Theatre Burlesk. But who was she, really?
18:28
Tales from the Rep Morgue S2E3: Comrades of Canton
Their factory closed and the Great Depression getting worse, a group of Canton watchmakers traveled to Moscow in 1930 to set up a factory for the Soviet government. It was the adventure of a lifetime. cantonrep.com/canton-podcasts
19:06
Tales from the Rep Morgue S2E2: A fiend at work
A month after Ruth Hunter’s death in 1924, a second young woman goes missing and her body is found in a creek. Detectives investigate three suspects, one of whom confesses, but almost 100 years later the cases remain unsolved.
16:39
Tales from the Rep Morgue S2E1: Pretty Ruth Hunter
After a young woman is found dead on a lonely country road, police charge a Canton businessman with murder. But do they have the right man?
17:06
Tales from the Rep Morgue Episode 14: "Name on the stone"
On Thanksgiving in 1944, Canton soldier Andrew K. Thellman was thankful to be alive while fighting the Germans during World War II.
11:22