Transcriptions of newspaper articles
September 12, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent Headlines reported German and Austrian reverses: GERMAN REVERSES IN FRANCE BAD — BUT IN RUSSIA IS WINNING FRENCH LINES ARE [...]
September 2014
September 11, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent The headlines continue to report the shifting conditions on the ground: GERMANS’ RIGHT WING RETREATS Center Being Heavily Reinforced [...]
September 10, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent Writing from London, Salem jeweler Charles Hinges writes of traveling through the war zone: Well I am this far, [...]
September 9, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent On Wednesday the ninth of the month, the front page of the Capital Journal reported that “Upwards of 6,000,000 men [...]
September 8, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent Evidence that the German advance into France had stalled begins to show in the headlines from the Capital Journal: [...]
September 7, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent One of the remaining Marne taxis is in Portland. “German Women of Most Heroic Mold” read the [...]
September 6, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent Headlines in the Sunday edition of the Daily Oregon Statesman for 6 September, 1914 reported what would be a [...]
September 5, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent The day’s headlines in the Capital Journal forecast the crucial battles that will come to be known as The Miracle [...]
September 4, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent Headlines from the Daily Oregon Statesman: RUSSIAN ARMY IS LANDED AT SCOTTISH PORT Force of Seventy-Two Thousand Transported to [...]
September 3, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent The Capital Journal headlines reported: ALLIES STRONGLY ENTRENCHED — FEEL SURE OF VICTORY Fighting Is Fierce on Part of Front [...]