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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…

The former Gustav Burkart Building (1899) in West Liberty--now a Mexican restaurant.

"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."

German POWs on a work assignment in WWII.

German native Helen Tylee, who ran the family's Linn County farm during her husband's deployment.

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.

Passport of Ruth Salzmann, a refugee from Berlin and later an Iowa nurse and activist.

Boy Scout from Amana in 1934.

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.

Women's basketball team of the Northwest Davenport Turners, 1929.