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On 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/
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Tales from the Rep Morgue S2E9: Levi Lupton Part 2 from 2020-12-05T03:10
Scandal ends Levi Lupton's preaching career, but the story doesn't end there, as his descendants discover decades later.
ListenTales from the Rep Morgue S2E8: Levi Lupton Part 1 from 2020-12-05T03:00
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 tha...
ListenTales from the Rep Morgue S2E7: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade from 2020-11-07T03:00
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.
ListenTales from the Rep Morgue S2E6: Skateland from 2020-10-03T02:00
Roller skating, civil rights and racism in early 1960s Canton.
ListenTales from the Rep Morgue S2E5: Disease Detective from 2020-09-05T02:00
Almost a century ago, when lethal germs lurked in water and food supplies, a young woman named Helen Parson protected Canton residents from diseases.
ListenTales from the Rep Morgue S2E4: Busty Russell from 2020-03-22T03:00
Busty Russell was a legendary performer at Canton's State Theatre Burlesk. But who was she, really?
ListenTales from the Rep Morgue S2E3: Comrades of Canton from 2020-03-07T04:00
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 lif...
ListenTales from the Rep Morgue S2E2: A fiend at work from 2020-02-15T04:00
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 ...
ListenTales from the Rep Morgue S2E1: Pretty Ruth Hunter from 2020-02-01T04:00
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?
ListenTales from the Rep Morgue Episode 14: "Name on the stone" from 2019-11-30T03:00
On Thanksgiving in 1944, Canton soldier Andrew K. Thellman was thankful to be alive while fighting the Germans during World War II.
ListenTales from the Rep Morgue Episode 13: "Not dead yet" from 2019-11-16T03:00
A doctor pronounces a woman dead and sends her body to a local funeral home, only for an embalmer to discover she's alive.
ListenTales from the Rep Morgue Episode 12: "The Madam Must Die" from 2019-10-19T03:00
When is a murder not a murder? When you're in Canton in 1974. Join Canton Repository reporters Shane Hoover and Tim Botos discuss their five-part print serial "The Madam Must Die" that starts Su...
ListenTales from the Rep Morgue Episode 11: "The 9 Lives of Joe Butera" pt. 4 from 2019-07-06T01:00
After almost a decade of being hunted by would-be assassins, Joe Butera strikes back. But he can't avoid a final showdown with the Black Hand in the conclusion of this series.
ListenTales from the Rep Morgue Episode 10: "The 9 Lives of Joe Butera" pt. 3 from 2019-06-22T01:00
When a Black Hand gang bombs an Alliance merchant in 1912, Joe Butera helps police round up suspects. Butera’s enemies use the courts, as well as bullets, to get revenge.
ListenTales from the Rep Morgue Episode 9: "The 9 Lives of Joe Butera" pt. 2 from 2019-06-08T01:00
Giuseppe Butera arrives in the United States in 1898 with $10 in his pocket. Giuseppe becomes Joseph, then, Joe, but he can’t outrun a secret from his past. Find the show notes at cantonre...
ListenTales from the Rep Morgue Episode 8: "The 9 Lives of Joe Butera" from 2019-05-25T01:00
When a would-be assassin shoots Joe Butera in the head on a summer evening in 1912, it’s not the first time he's been targeted by a Black Hand gang, and it won’t be the last.
ListenTales from the Rep Morgue Episode 7: "Canton's Last Call" from 2019-05-11T01:00
Wets indulge in a two-part bacchanalia before Prohibition starts in Ohio on May 27, 1919. While local churches celebrate the “funeral” of John Barleycorn and bury King Alcohol &ldquo...
ListenTales from the Rep Morgue Episode 6: "A horrid murder" from 2019-04-27T00:00
His mind warped by whiskey, Christian Bachtel kills his wife, Mary, and commits the first murder in Stark County in 1833. Thousands come to Canton to watch his hanging, the first and only truly ...
ListenTales from the Rep Morgue Episode 5: "The Death Banquet" from 2019-04-13T00:00
An Alliance soldier returns from World War I and his high-society friends throw him a party. But the food is deadlier than anything the vet faced on the Western Front. As one diner after an...
ListenTales From the Rep Morgue Episode 4: "Could it happen again?" from 2019-03-30T01:00
How did Canton and the rest of the world move on from the pandemic flu of 1918, what lessons did we learn and could a pandemic like this happen again? Show notes at Listen
Tales From the Rep Morgue Episode 3: "We must have nurses" from 2019-03-16T00:00
Hundreds of people are getting the flu every day in Canton. The local Red Cross opens an emergency hospital that eventually cares for 100 patients at a time. Among those patients are the Rizzo o...
ListenTales From the Rep Morgue Episode 2: "All is not well" from 2019-03-03T09:00:52
The first flu victims die in Canton, forcing health officials to admit the disease has reached the city and take action to close schools, saloons and churches. As the death toll rises, local res...
ListenTales From the Rep Morgue Episode 1: "Pandemic" from 2019-02-17T09:00
Episode 1: "Pandemic," Spanish influenza breaks out in U.S. military camps during the final year of World War 1, and the first victims from Stark County are local soldiers and s...
ListenComing Sunday: Episode 1 of Tales from The Rep Morgue from 2019-02-05T21:46:52
With more than 200 years of archives, there are some great stories to be told from the archives of The Canton Repository and reporter Shane Hoover begins to tell those with his podcast. His firs...
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