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

This letter to Herbert J. Metcalf is informing him that he noticed during the last meeting of the Council of Defense that he was unable to attend, a new plan of reorganization of the County Councils of Defense was considered. He was asking if Metcalf…

Explanatory note attached to Lutheran petition

Against a "Nebuchadnezzar."

Asking for concessions in Paton.

Otherwise compliant minister wonders about potential temporary exemptions.

Requests concession for elderly parents.

Lasher against German influence and immigration.

This correspondence is connected with the previous letter. This shows how much of the United States was involved in removing German aliens, even the Food Administration. Every department of the federal government was paranoid and was involved in…

Enthusiastic and jocular acclimation of recent dissolution of German-language courses in Waukon Schools from Waukon, Iowa's The Democrat.