Iowa City Daily Republican: "The Very Latest" (eyewitness reports of the Iowa City Beer Riots)
Iowa City Beer Riots; Conrad Graf; John Dostal; John Englert; Horace Kimball; C. G. Swafford; Lewis Swafford; W. H. Bailey; Samuel Fairall; Mike O'Riley; J. W. Schell; J. J. Parrott; Milton Remley; Frank Schell; M. W. Davis; George Ewing; George J. Boal; L. H. Jackson; C. M. Reno; Women's Christian Temperance Union; Union Brewery; Great Western Brewery
A collection of eyewitness accounts concerning the Iowa City Beer Riots, which began during the trial of local brewers Conrad Graf and John Dostal for having violated the state's new Prohibition law by selling beer on July 4, 1884, the day the law went into effect. The trial was held in Scott Township to the east of Iowa City: following the tarring and feathering of H. Bailey, an attorney for the prosecution, a mob of anti-Prohibitionists, led by John J. Englert and Conrad Graf, followed two witnesses for the prosecution, the C. G. and Lewis Swafford, into town and threatened them with violence.
State Historical Society of Iowa; Iowa City Public Library
From the August 14, 1884 issue of the Iowa City Daily Republican in the digital historic newspaper collection of the Iowa City Public Library
Iowa City Daily Republican, microfilm newspaper collection, State Historical Society of Iowa
Iowa City; Scott Township; Johnson County; 1884-08-14
Iowa Staats-Anzeiger: The Allied Press Plays Blind Man's Bluff with Uncle Sam
World War I; Allied press; war reporting
This editorial cartoon implies that the war reporting of the Associated Press and English, French, Russian, and Belgian newspapers is biased.
Front Page of Iowa Staats-Anzeiger, 6 August 1914: http://germansiniowa.lib.uiowa.edu/items/show/2236
Iowa Staats-Anzeiger, microfilm newspaper collections, State Historical Society of Iowa
1914-11-19; Davenport; Polk County; World War I
The Black Hawk, the student newspaper of Davenport High School, reported on the' burning of books in German "by about 50 lower classmen."
Davenport; Scott County; 1918-05-17; World War I
Iowa Wöchentliche Post: Abraham Lincoln for President
nomination of Abraham Lincoln as Republican candidate for President; presidential election
In 1860, the Iowa Wöchentliche Post, a Republican newspaper based in Des Moines, announced the nomination of Abraham Lincoln as Republican candidate for President to its readers.
Iowa Wöchentliche Post, Des Moines
Die Iowa Post (newspaper map): http://germansiniowa.lib.uiowa.edu/neatline/show/newspaper-map#records/17
Iowa Wöchentliche Post, microfilm newspaper collections, State Historical Society of Iowa
Employees of the Korn Baking Company, Davenport
Employees of the Korn Baking Company in Davenport pose for a photograph around a giant pretzel.
German-American Heritage Center, Davenport
German American Heritage Center, Davenport
German American Heritage Center, Davenport, Accession no. 2003.019.1
Iowa Staats-Anzeiger: Unmasking a liar (Ein Lügner blosgestellt)
Eiboeck’s dispute with John P. Irish over saloon licensing at the Anti-Monopoly party convention; support of German voters; J.P. Stibolt, editor of the Davenport Demokrat; Frederick A. Gniffke, editor of the Dubuque National-Demokrat; Simeon Hotz? (co-owner of the Union Brewery in Iowa City); J.J. Hotz? (contractor and son-in-law of Louis Englert, founder of the City Brewery in Iowa City)
In reaction to a letter that John P. Irish had published in the German newspaper Dubuque National-Demokrat, which attacked Joseph Eiboeck's alledgedly insulting rhetoric in a speech at the Anti-Monopolist state convention in July 1874 in favor of including a license plank in the party platform, Eiboeck presents his version of events and defends his actions. In addition to a translation of an English-language declaration by leading citizens of Des Moines that Eiboeck did not use the language that Irish claimed, the article also contains a comparable statement by well-known German-Americans in Des Moines, including Conrad Beck, Eiboeck's predecessor as editor of the Iowa Staats-Anzeiger.
Iowa Staats-Anzeiger: A lying, malicious attack (Ein verlogener, niederträchtiger Angriff) "Iowa's Prohibition Plague: Joseph Eiboeck's Account of the Battle over Prohibition," The Annals of Iowa 78 (2019): 1-74, at 15-16.
Iowa City Historical Library Newspaper Collection Microfilm, State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
1874; Iowa; Des Moines; Polk County; Dubuque County; Scott County; Johnson County
H. Mahraun, Agent for the North German Lloyd
trans-Atlantic travel; North German Lloyd; packet lines
Advertisement for the services of H. Mahraun, Iowa City agent for the North German Lloyd packet line.
Iowa Banner, microfilm newspaper collections, State Historical Society of Iowa
Iowa City; Johnson County; Bremen; New York; Baltimore
The Iowa: Joseph Eiboeck's new State Independent
Nicholas Gonner, editor of the Iowa, comments on Joseph Eiboeck's new English-language anti-temperance paper, the State Independent. Despite Gonner's support of the paper, he is concerned that Eiboeck's lack of religious sensibilities will alienate potential readers.
Iowa: Ein katholisches Wochenblatt für den Nordwesten der Ver. Staaten
Deutsche Katholische Druck-Gesellschaft (German Catholic Printing Agency)
microfilm newspaper collections, State Historical Society of Iowa
Des Moines; Polk County; Dubuque; Dubuque County
Davenport Demokrat: Joseph Eiboeck purchases the Iowa Staats-Anzeiger
newspapers; purchase of Iowa Staats-Anzeiger
The Davenport Demokrat publishes a notice that Joseph Eiboeck has bought the Iowa Staats-Anzeiger in partnership with P. Gehr.
Joseph Eiboeck, "To Our Honored Readers": https://germansiniowa.lib.uiowa.edu/items/show/2276
Davenport Demokrat, microfilm newspaper collections, State Historical Society of Iowa
Davenport; Des Moines; 1874; Polk County; Scott County
Davenport Demokrat: Petition for the Taxation of Church Property (Petition wegen Besteuerung des Kirchen-Eigentums)
The text of the petition, translated from an English petition in circulation at the time, requests that the Iowa General Assembly revoke the tax-exempt status of church property. In support, it claims that the value of church property (in Iowa?) quadrupled between 1850 and 1870, even though church membership rose much less. It argues that such a concentration of a wealth in the hands of clerics is dangerous for civil liberty.