Transcriptions of newspaper articles
December 11, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent The headlines from today’s Daily Capital Journal: FRENCH CLAIM TO BE ADVANCING SLOWLY ALONG WHOLE LINE Fighting Reported at [...]
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December 10, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent The editorial page of the Daily Oregon Statesman addressed “The Militia Problem:” The war department is planning a national [...]
December 9, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent The editor commented favorably on President Wilson’s argument that the United States did not need a large standing army: President [...]
December 8, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent President Woodrow Wilson. Wikimedia Commons, Library of Congress. President Wilson delivered the State of the [...]
December 7, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent German soilders in Lodz in 1914. Wikimedia Commons, German Federal Archives. LODZ CAPTURED AT [...]
December 6, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent From the Daily Oregon Statesman comes the following: HAND TO HAND BATLE WAGED OUTSIDE LODZ Combatants Exhaust Ammunition, then [...]
December 5, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent In an earlier post I compared World War I, the Great War as it was and for some still [...]
December 4, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent The front page of The Daily Capital Journal had these headlines regarding the war: MEDICATED COTTON FOR HOSPITAL USE SENT [...]
December 3, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent From the front page of The Daily Capital Journal: SOCIALISTS MAY EXPEL THEIR LEADER He Was the Only Member [...]
December 2, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent Continuing William G. Shepherd’s reporting from the Austrian front, the headline read: SCENES AT FRONT WITH AUSTRIANS TOLD BY [...]