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  • Collection: Women and German Iowa

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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Author notes that prominent town member is getting his son deferrals from service.

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Informing on neighbor, who says disloyal things about America. She "told me in my husband's presence that she was born a German and would die a German and that if she lived in this country next hundred years no one could ever make her say that she is…

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Barr notes the pain she feels at continued use of German in town, as she has family members dead on account of the war.

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

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German over the wire in Wayland.

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Templeton to Harding

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The situation in Burlington

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Noting Charles City large pro-German contingent, as well as the fact that many are "moneyed men," which enables and protects them. Also including story of German man beating his wife for wanting to "be an American."

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Scringer informs on a specific individual who insists on speaking German, although she was born in America.

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