• Collection: World War I
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Welsh congregation wonders whether "conformity to proclamation to be regarded as test of loyalty?"
198708-997118 - Gustafson Johnie - May 3, 2016 1000 PM - GustafsonJ D.J.MurphytoH.J.Metcalf Metcalf_1.jpg

This letter is addressed to Herbert J. Metcalf from D. J. Murphy, and attorney from Waukon, Iowa. This letter informs Metcalf that there is a $136.00 Check enclosed to raise money for the men from Allamakee at Camp Dodge. It was noted that the…
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Some foresight here. Mosher requests, pre-Babel, a law making it illegal to speak German in church services.
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Sjaardema wants investigation started into yellow paint on his building.
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Traveling salesman asks to join CoD, as he travels much and encounters pro-Germans he could report on.
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Informing on disloyalty, overhearing remark: "President Wilson is a son of a bitch a damn stie worse than Villa."
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Colorful denunciation of local Germans, who persist in "continually blabber[ing] their slop bucket dutch."
Orabutt, DTJ Nov. 12 1918 page 1.pdf

The front page of the Dubuque Times-Journal is mostly celebrating the end of the First World War. However, on the left-hand side of the front page is an editorial about the end of the war. The editorial is Anti-German in all its language. The…
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