October 14, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent The export of prunes to England also made the front page of the Capital Journal: FIRST SHIPMENT OF PRUNES [...]
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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 [...]
September 19, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent It did not take long for someone to rebut the article of the sixteenth [...]
September 16, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent “Germans Take Up Position On The Aisne” read the headline in the Daily Oregon Statesman, [...]
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August 30, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent Though residing in the United States, one’s citizenship could result in being called up for military service, as this [...]
26 August 2014
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent CORPSES HEAPED IN WINDROWS Germans Charge in Face of Hurricane of Shrapnel and Rifle Balls THEIR RECKLESSNESS FAIRLY INCREDIBLE [...]
August 25, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent Prohibition was the local issue. The editor, acknowledging that closing taverns and saloons adversely affected the local economy, and [...]
August 17, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent In the chaos of war, rumor spread faster than fact. Karl Von Wiegand, Berlin correspondent for the United Press [...]
August 13, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent The headlines: One Great Battle Rages Over Front of Fully 300 Miles “The Germans still strove today to force [...]
August 11, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent “Salem People Speak Minds On War Cause” was the headline for an article in the Statesman reporting local opinion [...]