250530-997118 - Lusk MollyMaeve - May 3, 2016 621 PM - LuskM_Letters between T.A. Potter and H.J. Metcalf, January 9, 1918_Metcalf_Page1.JPG

T.A. Potter wrote H.J Metcalf asking what type of response and how much response he had received concerning banning the teaching of German in schools, specifically from the School Board of Mason City. To this Metcalf replied that he had received no…
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Support from Buffalo Center Community Club.
257578-997118 - Van Eldik Noah - May 3, 2016 507 PM - VanEldikN_LetterregardingGermanlanguage_Metcalf9.jpe

The Buffalo Center Commercial club sent in a letter regarding getting rid of the German language in and around Buffalo Center. A group of farmers gather at the post office and speak in German everyday and the club wants to get rid of this. The…
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Support for Babel, although noting its initial resistance in Danish-American communities.
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City Marshal writes of Germans disregarding Babel and threatens potential violence
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Beveridge with several accusations against "radical pro-German assertions" in his vicinity.
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Local wondering whether German communities can again preach in German, as war recently over.
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Germans ignore Babel after contracting lawyer, take down signs, noting that "the proper place for them was the toilet, as there was where [they] talked English."
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