October 3, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent The headlines from the Capital Journal: GREATEST BATTLE IS BEGINNING Battle of Cracow Promises to Be More Stupendous Than That of [...]
October 2014
I Baked a Cake for Ike and Mamie Author Coming to Salem
Eileen Hadley Givens Eileen Hadley Givens Local History Author 2:30Â p.m. Saturday, October 25 Loucks Auditorium I Baked a Cake for Ike and Mamie! [...]
October 2, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent Friday’s headlines from the Capital Journal: MEDICAL CORPS SWAMPED Losses So Enormous that Wounded Are Forced to Remain Uncared For RUSSIANS SAY [...]
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Hops Harvest, Independence, Oregon. WHC 2014.067.0001
October 1, 1914
Today’s headlines from the Thursday front page of the Capital Journal: FIGHTING FOUR HUGE BATTLES Six Million Men Fighting in Eastern Theatre of European War RESULTS [...]
September 2014
First Lady Lou comes to Newberg
First Lady Lou Hoover with lion cub 1932 First Lady Lou Henry Hoover is coming to Newberg this November. The Hoover-Minthorn House will [...]
September 30, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent The month closed with continued confused and conflicting reports from Europe. The Capital Journal headlines reported: ACCOUNTS WIDELY AT VARIANCE [...]
September 29, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent The Statesman reported the sinking of three British cruisers by a single German U-boat. The Cressy, the Aboukir, and [...]
September 28, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent For the first time since the start of the war, the lead headline did not report the course of [...]
September 27, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent Today in 1914 was a Sunday. There was no issue of the Capital Journal, and in the Statesman, war [...]