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"Obey the prohibition laws!" wrote the lackey Denison Review a few weeks ago, cowering and wagging its tail like a dog before the Republican party. The newspaper itself, however, or at least its editors, hasn't the slightest desire to do so. We have…
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The former Gustav Burkart Building (1899) in West Liberty--now a Mexican restaurant.
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"Hawkeye Wedding" song for the marriage of refugee Ruth Salzmann and Sam Becker, to the tune of a well-known German children's song, "The Bird-Wedding."
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German POWs on a work assignment in WWII.
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German native Helen Tylee, who ran the family's Linn County farm during her husband's deployment.
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Wax seal presented in 1979 by the City of Vienna to Eric Kollman, who had fled Vienna in 1939 and who became a history professor at Cornell College.
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Passport of Ruth Salzmann, a refugee from Berlin and later an Iowa nurse and activist.
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Boy Scout from Amana in 1934.
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Helen Tylee's family poked fun at prohibition during her 1930 visit to Germany. The child's sign reads "Prohibition kaput." Helen is on the left.
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Women's basketball team of the Northwest Davenport Turners, 1929.
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