Transcriptions of newspaper articles
February 18, 1915
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent The first days of the German submarine blockade appeared to be anticlimactic from the [...]
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February 17, 2015
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent The front page of the Capital Journal again focused on the pending German submarine blockade of Great Britain and [...]
February 16, 1915
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent A rare banner headline dominated the front page of the Capital Journal: INTERNATIONAL SITUATION NEARS CRISIS TODAY Anti-American Feeling Is [...]
February 15, 1915
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondence The fate of neutral shipping in and around the North Sea was once again in the headlines: SECOND REQUEST MADE [...]
February 14, 1915
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent A brief editorial in the Oregon Statesman asks “What Is Truth?” No doubt Germans in America have occasionally been [...]
February 13, 1915
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent Caught in the middle again, the pending seizure of cargo destined for Germany from an American vessel would affect [...]
February 12, 1915
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent “Kaiser Depressed and Seeking Way to Secure Peace” offered readers a glimmer of hope that Germany might seek a [...]
February 11, 1915
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent The Capital Journal headlines held little hope for peace: BOMBARDMENT OF TRENCHES GREATLY AIDED BY AIRMEN Both Sides Use Aviators [...]
February 10, 1915
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent Trade and the fate of neutral vessels affected Marion County. The consequences, fought out on the high seas of [...]
February 8, 1915
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent “False flags,” that favorite term of conspiracy theorists, was the maritime equivalent of the childhood “wolf in sheep’s clothing” [...]