The nation had not yet been catapulted into World War II.
In Youngstown, there was squabbling over accusations of voter fraud. British teenagers — boys and girls — were gearing up for military service. In Canton, Lillian Herman, the 47-year-old wife of Trinity Lutheran Church Pastor E.C. Herman, died tragically from a cerebral hemorrhage.
That same day, the city also received a new resident, Don Stock.
To mark his 80th birthday, Stock's granddaughter Jessica Morford bound 80 front pages of the Canton Repository into book form — one Jan. 29 edition of the front page from each year — from the past last 80 years.
Stock, who shares a birthday with President William McKinley, said his granddaughter, who grew up in Shaker Heights and now lives in Denver, surprised him with the book in February.