Sinopsis
On Tales From the Rep Morgue, Canton Repository staff writer Shane Hoover explores stories from the newspaper's 200-year-old archive with the help of experts and the Repository staff in this documentary-style podcast.
Episodios
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Tales from the Rep Morgue S2E9: Levi Lupton Part 2
05/12/2020 Duración: 18minScandal ends Levi Lupton's preaching career, but the story doesn't end there, as his descendants discover decades later. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Tales from the Rep Morgue S2E8: Levi Lupton Part 1
05/12/2020 Duración: 14minLevi 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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Tales from the Rep Morgue S2E7: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade
07/11/2020 Duración: 22minIn 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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Tales from the Rep Morgue S2E6: Skateland
03/10/2020 Duración: 19minRoller skating, civil rights and racism in early 1960s Canton. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Tales from the Rep Morgue S2E5: Disease Detective
05/09/2020 Duración: 13minAlmost a century ago, when lethal germs lurked in water and food supplies, a young woman named Helen Parson protected Canton residents from diseases. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.
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Tales from the Rep Morgue S2E4: Busty Russell
22/03/2020 Duración: 18minBusty Russell was a legendary performer at Canton's State Theatre Burlesk. But who was she, really?
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Tales from the Rep Morgue S2E3: Comrades of Canton
07/03/2020 Duración: 19minTheir 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
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Tales from the Rep Morgue S2E2: A fiend at work
15/02/2020 Duración: 16minA 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.
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Tales from the Rep Morgue S2E1: Pretty Ruth Hunter
01/02/2020 Duración: 17minAfter 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?
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Tales from the Rep Morgue Episode 14: "Name on the stone"
30/11/2019 Duración: 11minOn Thanksgiving in 1944, Canton soldier Andrew K. Thellman was thankful to be alive while fighting the Germans during World War II.
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Tales from the Rep Morgue Episode 13: "Not dead yet"
16/11/2019 Duración: 18minA doctor pronounces a woman dead and sends her body to a local funeral home, only for an embalmer to discover she's alive.
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Tales from the Rep Morgue Episode 12: "The Madam Must Die"
19/10/2019 Duración: 11minWhen 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 Sunday, Oct. 20.
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Tales from the Rep Morgue Episode 11: "The 9 Lives of Joe Butera" pt. 4
06/07/2019 Duración: 13minAfter 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.
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Tales from the Rep Morgue Episode 10: "The 9 Lives of Joe Butera" pt. 3
22/06/2019 Duración: 12minWhen 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.
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Tales from the Rep Morgue Episode 9: "The 9 Lives of Joe Butera" pt. 2
08/06/2019 Duración: 12minGiuseppe 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 cantonrep.com/canton-podcasts.
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Tales from the Rep Morgue Episode 8: "The 9 Lives of Joe Butera"
25/05/2019 Duración: 13minWhen 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.
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Tales from the Rep Morgue Episode 7: "Canton's Last Call"
11/05/2019 Duración: 23minWets 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 “deeply down,” four Canton saloons stock up for the last hurrah.
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Tales from the Rep Morgue Episode 6: "A horrid murder"
27/04/2019 Duración: 26minHis 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 public execution in the county’s history.
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Tales from the Rep Morgue Episode 5: "The Death Banquet"
13/04/2019 Duración: 11minAn 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 another is paralyzed and dies, investigators race to solve the medical mystery. Show notes at CantonRep.com/canton-podcasts.
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Tales From the Rep Morgue Episode 4: "Could it happen again?"
30/03/2019 Duración: 12minHow 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 CantonRep.com/canton-podcasts