Ainsworth's side of the Kreutz case, in which he at first refused to come and then relented when given a public hearing. His fear is evident, and the coercion thick.
Image of the Agents page from the revised 1873 immigration handbook published by the Iowa Board of Immigration. The state maintained agents in Hamburg, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and London.
Morningside College has decided to continue teaching German, a move which Fitz condems as against the tenor of the times in both public and executive opinion.
Publisher writes against German parochial schools and the teaching of German in general, as Germany proper immediately Germanizes any territory it conquers.
Denunciation of John J. Adams, appointed to state board of defense, signed by "Disgusted Citizen." Claims Adams is a noxious pro-German who would rather than Germany win the war than lose under a Democratic Administration.
Asthalter speaks against the German preachers, for "they should be doing everything in their power to convince us that they are real Americans, instead of stirring up trouble for themselves." So, apparently, these things are given a broad, public…
Kimmel ntoes the need to "counteract the vicious influences of the Socialists, Bolshevists and other agitators who would tear down our present form of Government and present order of things."