October 17, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent The days headlines from The Daily Capital Journal: WEATHER TERRIBLE ON TROOPS Cold Rain and in Places Snow Made [...]
October 2014
October 9, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent Crowd outside Shibe Park for Game 1 of the 1914 World Series. Photo Source: Library of Congress. [...]
October 8, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent The letter to the editor in the Capital Journal’s Monday edition from A. Davis Fleet, in which he took issue [...]
October 4, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent 1914 was an even numbered year, it is October, and that means elections are in the offing. In 1914 [...]
September 2014
September 25, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent In 1914 the opinions of the people mattered to the Oregon Statesman and there was no word limit on [...]
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 [...]
July 2014
July 4, 1914
By Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent News from Europe dropped out of the paper for a period of days. Â Local issues and news predominated, of [...]
July 3, 1914
By Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent By Friday following the assassination the Journal reports that war may ensue and that the shock of the murders [...]
May 2014
Moonshine Down the Drain
This article was found in today by Volunteer Darrel in the personal papers of Elmer Daue he is indexing. We thought it was interesting the [...]
February 2014
Phez Advertisement, 2011.027.0205
Phez brand Loganberry juice was produced in Salem, Oregon and marketed as an alcohol substitute after prohibition laws were put into place in Salem (1913) [...]