Transcriptions of newspaper articles
Bush College or Brush College?
Original Brush College Schoolhouse built in 1860.Photo courtesy of Salem-Keizer School District. In the past few weeks this question has [...]
March 2014
July 2013
Doty-Stone
Card Catalog at the WHC This is an example of one of the cards found in the old Marion County [...]
May 2012
No Name Title Goes to Salem As Season Ends, 1941
The following is an article that appeared in the Friday, March 14, 1941 edition of the Clarion, the newspaper for what was then Salem’s only [...]
April 2012
'Have Her Sing Again'
On September 14, 1974, Capital Journal reporter Al Jones presented the following story of Hallie Parrish Hinges and her performance in Salem before President Theodore [...]
1954 Big Year in Salem District School Building
This article, published in the Capital Journal December 31, 1954, appeared in the midst of spring cleaning today. The Salem school district completed buildings that cost [...]
July 2011
How Does Oregon Photographic Art Rank?
The following article was published in the Oregon Magazine, in February, 1932 (Vol. XXVI, No. X).  The Oregon Magazine was a monthly Salem-based [...]
March 2011
Shocking Accident, 1870
The following is the transcription of an article published in The Daily Oregon Statesman January 11, 1870. Shocking Accident. -- A little boy, five years [...]
March 0215
March 2, 1915
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent In response to Germany’s attempt at a submarine blockade of the British Isles, the headline in the Statesman reported: [...]