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.