President Taft Comes to Salem
This article about President Taft’s visit to Salem in 1911 was originally published in the Statesman Journal in August 2016. It is reproduced here with [...]
September 2016
September 2014
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, [...]
August 2014
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 [...]
June 2014
German Speaking Salem
This article appeared in the Statesman Journal newspaper June 1, 2014. It is reproduced here with citations for reference purposes. The First Wednesday celebration [...]