Transcriptions of newspaper articles
December 27, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent “Bits for Breakfast,” a daily column of short observations had the following to say about the war: All the [...]
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December 26, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent The day’s headlines from the Capital Journal AMERICANS’ THREAT SAVED THE FOREIGN CITIZENS IN BEIRUT Cruisers North Carolina and Tennessee [...]
December 25, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent This is the Oregon Statesman’s “Synopsis of the War Situation” from the Associated Press for Christmas Day: Christmas finds [...]
A Christmas Dispatch From Our World War I Correspondent
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent The information in this article was published March 24, 1915, but is pertinent to [...]
December 24, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent Each day the Oregon Statesman daily reported a synopsis of the war situation: There is heavy fighting in progress [...]
December 23, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent The day’s headlines from the Capital Journal: DREADNAUGHTS ARE IN HIDING ON WEST COAST OF IRELAND Germans Have This [...]
December 22, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld famously said, “you go to war with the army you have, not the [...]
December 21, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent Contemplating the course of the war, the editor of the Capital Journal comments of changes brought about by technology: THE [...]
December 20, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent In the spirit of the season, the Oregon Statesman published this poem by Mrs F. T. Porter, of Salem: [...]
December 20, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent In the spirit of the season, the Oregon Statesman published this poem by Mrs F. T. Porter, of Salem: [...]