Scandal 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.

Tales From the Rep Morgue

Tales from the Rep Morgue S2E9: Levi Lupton Part 2

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tales from the Rep Morgue S2E8: Levi Lupton Part 1

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tales from the Rep Morgue S2E7: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade

Roller skating, civil rights and racism in early 1960s Canton. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tales from the Rep Morgue S2E6: Skateland

Almost 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.

Tales from the Rep Morgue S2E5: Disease Detective

Busty Russell was a legendary performer at Canton's State Theatre Burlesk. But who was she, really?

Tales from the Rep Morgue S2E4: Busty Russell

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

Tales from the Rep Morgue S2E3: Comrades of Canton

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.

Tales from the Rep Morgue S2E2: A fiend at work

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?

Tales from the Rep Morgue S2E1: Pretty Ruth Hunter

On Thanksgiving in 1944, Canton soldier Andrew K. Thellman was thankful to be alive while fighting the Germans during World War II.

Tales from the Rep Morgue Episode 14: "Name on the stone"

A doctor pronounces a woman dead and sends her body to a local funeral home, only for an embalmer to discover she's alive.

Tales from the Rep Morgue Episode 13: "Not dead yet"

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 Sunday, Oct. 20.

Tales from the Rep Morgue Episode 12: "The Madam Must Die"

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.

Tales from the Rep Morgue Episode 11: "The 9 Lives of Joe Butera" pt. 4

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.

Tales from the Rep Morgue Episode 10: "The 9 Lives of Joe Butera" pt. 3

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 cantonrep.com/canton-podcasts.

Tales from the Rep Morgue Episode 9: "The 9 Lives of Joe Butera" pt. 2

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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