“IS PROSPERITY RETURNING?
Monday, Aug. 29, 2022
STANDING HEAD: The Monday After
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DIGITAL SUBHEAD:American economy prospered during President William McKinley’s administration.
Gary Brown
Special to The Canton Repository
USA TODAY NETWORK
“IS PROSPERITY RETURNING?
That’s the economic question that a bold headline in The Sunday Repository posed 125 years ago.
“Industrial Notes About Concerns In Canton and Vicinity and In All Parts Of the United States,” another headline at the top of the Repository’s front page answered on Aug. 22, 1897, adding that factories and businesses throughout the county and across the country were “Showing Increased Activity.”
The Dueber-Hampden Watch Company was showing especially prosperous manufacturing activity, another headline added, and the business had the sales to support it.
“GOOD NEWS FROM THE BIG WATCH FACTORY,” the newspaper reported atop a story that would go into more specifics about the manufacturing boom. “It Is Running Now In the Case Department As It has Not Run Before in August For Years, And the Hampden Factory Is Gradually Falling In Line.”
Other industries in the area also were emerging from the recession that had plagued the country earlier in the 1890s, not quite two years after William McKinley − Canton’s favorite son − had been elected president of the United States, and less than a year-and-a-half since the chief executive had been sworn into office.
“The Plant Of the Canton Bridge Company is Crowded,” another headline added….
