• Collection: World War I
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Declaration by a number of faith leaders in the county supporting the US and her war aims and Babel, with minimal caveats.
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Letter writer argues German-language press a key incubator of Pro-Germanism, through language.
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Babel the "right thing" to do and should have been adopted "forty years" ago.
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Manning police asks for clarification, as German is continually being used in the town.
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Foreign languages are being used more since Babel than before, "if that were possible." The Marshal of Manning was using German in town and at an election hall. Marshall even paraded down streets with other citizens singing German songs. What should…
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Forceful letter against apparently widespread German influence in Carroll, ending with flourish: now that we have the Germans to heel, must we not twist the ankle a bit? Also includes interesting assertation the Germans sign off (!) on…
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German ministers informing on each other? The writer discusses various Carroll county Lutheran ministers and their varying degrees of allegiance to Babel. He encloses a letter to one of these, Reverend John Ringold in Arcadia.
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Minister, named Christian Wolters, remarked from pulpit that "heathens were now trying to make them [Germans] use the heathen language."
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