Transcriptions of newspaper articles
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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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 [...]
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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 [...]
September 26, 1914
The Statesman reported that Dallas residents had arrived safely from the European theater in “Dallasites Safe:” Dallas Travelers, Marooned by War, Now in N.Y. Dallas, [...]
September 25, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent In 1914 the opinions of the people mattered to the Oregon Statesman and there was no word limit on [...]
September 24, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent An editorial in the Statesman addresses how nationalism and jingoism have begun to infect public opinion: London has boycotted [...]
September 23, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent The banner headline in the Oregon Statesman read “Right Flank of Germans Is Turned By The Allied Armies.” The [...]