May 12, 1915
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent Former President Theodore Roosevelt responded to President Wilson’s speech in Philadelphia. As the headline in the Statesman illustrates, partisan [...]
May 2015
May 10, 1915
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent Contradicting earlier reports that the Lusitania was armed, The Capital Journal reported the results of the coroner’s jury: WILLFUL [...]
May 9, 1915
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent The Oregon Statesman headline reported: Seventy-Two Americans Are Saved Out of 188; Twelve Hundred Bodies Are Missing The paper [...]
May 8, 1915
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent The Oregon Statesman again published a banner headline: The scope of the sinking of the Lusitania quickly became apparent, [...]
May 7, 2015
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent Across the front page of the Capital Journal was a single headline: LINER LUSITANIA SUNK BY GERMAN SUBMARINE 1400 [...]
May 4, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent What is the purpose of argument? What is the purpose of reporting? Or of history for that matter? We [...]
May 3, 1915
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent German submarine activity and its consequences dominated the news in May and into the summer: AMERICAN TANKER IS ATTACKED [...]
May 1, 1915
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent The headlines from the Capital Journal graphically describe the fury of battle and warn Americans “to travel at their own [...]
April 2015
Summary of the War for April, 1915
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent Russian Imperial ukase issued granting municipal self-government to Russian Poland (see First Indian units of Indian Expeditionary Force “G” [...]
April 28, 1915
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent The German use of gas again made the front page of the Capital Journal: ASPHYXIATION BOMBS CARRY AWFUL DEATH [...]