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  • Collection: Women and German Iowa

Switchboard operator calls in, saying she knows of German usage on phone line. How to enforce?

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Concessions for elderly parishoners.

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In this letter the librarian at Cornell college writes back to inform HJM that while they do have pro-German war books at the library they are keeping them under close watch but will not remove them entirely because the modern history classes sill…

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Censure of Governor for Babel, which author notes resembles the "stain of Prussianism" and will work out in favor of Germany.

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Telephone operator notes German defiance, as they say they can "speak whatever they want," citing "Predisent [sic] Wilson [saying] that they could talk the german [sic] over the Telephones."

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Informing on local German Lutheran pastor still speaking German

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A librarian

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Wonders whether Babel a "law that can be enforced, or is it only a request."

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Mayor writes regarding desire to rid Lowden of German language. How to proceed? Notes that in Davenport they've apparently been fining people [mostly women].

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This letter is addressed to Herbert Metcalf from F.D. Babcock Jr. dated November 23, 1917. The letterhead is from the North-West Mutual Insurance Association of Ida Grove, Iowa. The letter states that Babcock

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