Postwar situation in Butler County

Burling reports again on internal council business

Burling writes regarding county Council of Defense business.

This letter was a reply to an earlier demand to remove all possible pro-German propaganda from public libraries. It defended the loyalty of the library itself, and asserted that the current librarian had burned most of the pro-German books the…

High school student writes in support, noting his actions against German books and the subsequent burning of same.

The Black Hawk, the student newspaper of Davenport High School, reported on the' burning of books in German "by about 50 lower classmen."

merger of Burlington Volksfreund & Burlington Tribüne