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Scans of Commercial Record newspaper clippings about local people serving in the "Indian campaign", the Spanish-American War and at the declaration of war on Japan in 1941.
cr1891011601IndianCampaigns-3SaugBoys.jpg; Burt Court, Will Ryan and Frank Forbes serving in army Indian campaign 1891
cr1898030401LocalReactionWarAgainstSpain.jpg; The 1898 Spanish-American War was a war between Spain and the US in the Caribbean and the Philippines in 1898. American public opinion having been aroused by sensational newspaper reports Spanish atrocities in Cuba and the destruction of the warship Maine in Santiago harbor, the US declared war and successfully invaded Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, all of which Spain gave up by the Treaty of Paris (1898). cr1898052001ThreeVolunteersForSpanishWar.jpg; William Sparks, Harry Strong and Melvin Goodrode cr1898070801SeabrightKilledInSantiago.jpg; Ferdinand Seabright, son of John Seabright cr1898071501FalconersMeetInSanFrancisco.jpg; James Falconer, Allan Falconer cr1898090901LetterFromCuba.jpg; In a letter to his mother, Mrs. Swan, Emery Swan describes conditions in Cuba cr1941121201JapanAttacks-WarDeclared.jpg; A. B. Swanson, of Douglas at Pearl Harbor; Jack Timm on board the battleship Oklahoma; Mrs. Agnes Ruley Miller and daughter Betty; Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Clapp.

2024.01.44

NewspapersMilitary, wars and veterans

Winthers, Sally

2024.01

Yoder, Chris

Donation, unconditional

These Commercial Record newspaper clippings — scanned by Chris Yoder in the 2000s — had been available on the pre-2023 SDHC website. The content has been moved to this online catalog for safekeeping. Publication dates are indicated in the year/month/day/page file name. For example "cr1938102801Description.jpg" = Commercial Record, 1938, October, 28th, page 01

Digital data in CatalogIt

Swanson, Albert Bertel 1908-1983Miller, Agnes (Ruley)Clapp, Charles

World War II 1939-1945

06/22/2024

06/22/2024