October 7, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent The headlines from the Capital Journal: FIGHTING FIERCEST ON RIGHT Contest Is Prolonged By Assembling Strong Forces of German [...]
October 2014
September 2014
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, [...]
August 2014
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 20, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent Front page headlines: ROME FORGETS WAR ON DEATH OF POPE TURNS TO PRAYER Announcement of Death Not Made Public [...]
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 [...]
August 6, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent With war dominating the news, the United States was the largest and most powerful nation remaining neutral. As a [...]
August 4, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent Headlines: “England Liable To Declare War At Minute’s Notice.” The immediate issue being Belgian neutrality and the insistence that [...]
July 2014
St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Salem
This is the cover to the program given out at the dedication of St. Joseph's Catholic Church in 1953 that was recently donated to the [...]
July 23, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent As war loomed, the day’s headlines reflected the coming conflict: Russia In Danger of Civil War Situation Is Alarming; [...]