Winston-Salem Journal readers opened their newspapers on the first day of 1915, one hundred years ago, and these were the headlines: Russians Cross Carpathians Third Time: French Report Successes in the West…America’s Note of...
Amelia Adelaide Van Vleck was born on this day in 1834, in Pennsylvania, to Carl Anton and Christiana Susan Kramsch Van Vleck. Her father was a Moravian minister in Pennsylvania when she was born....
Hattie Blanche Thomas Sumner Hege was born on this day in 1873, in Salem, to H. Clay and Carrie Butner Thomas. Blanche and her family lived for a while in Thomasville. She was the...
Edward Rondthaler was born on this day in 1842, in Pennsylvania, to Edward and Sarah Rice Rondthaler. His father and grandfather were Moravian ministers, and his father later became president of the Theological Seminary...
On Easter Sunday, April 20, 1930, Winston-Salem was treated to an event that had not occurred before. The Easter Sunrise Service was broadcast on WSJS Radio. The station’s first broadcast was on the previous...
Rufus Alexander Shore was born on this day in 1863, in Winston-Salem, to Jonas and Elizabeth Thomas Shore. Rufus worked in the newspaper field as a young man, and began his career as an...
Fred Wilson Pfaff was born on this day in 1907, in Winston-Salem, to Samuel and Mary Ann Wilson Pfaff. Fred graduated from R. J. Reynolds High School and Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pa. After...
Ground was broken for the Rondthaler Memorial Sunday School Building on South Church Street in 1912, and the first services were held there in 1913. The bottom floor of the building was a...
