Summary

DescriptionBerliner Journal, 12 August 1914 front page (cropped).jpg	English: Berliner Journal, 12 August 1914 front page, reporting: "Germany and Austria in battle against Great Britain, Belgium, France, Portugal, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro. The Germans take Liege in Belgium. [...]"
Date	12 August 1914
Source	https://newspapers.lib.sfu.ca/bj3-1493/page-1
Author	John Adam Rittinger (1855–1915) and W. J. Motz (1870–1946)
Other versions	This file has been extracted from another file : Berliner Journal, 12 August 1914 full front page.jpg

Licensing

By this time the Berliner Journal had paying subscribers in the United States in states like Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan. This means it fits the definition of having been published in the US. Sources:

Löchte, Anne (2008) ""We dont want Kiser to rool in Ontario": Franco-Prussian War, German unification, and World War I as reflected in the Canadian Berliner Journal (1859–1918)" in German Diasporic Experiences: Identity, Migration, and Loss, Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, pp. 107–116 ISBN: 978-1-55458-027-9.

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Lorenzkowski, Barbara (2010) Sounds of Ethnicity: Listening to German North America, 1850–1914, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, p. 137 ISBN: 978-0-88755-188-8.

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