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  • Tags: Babel Enforcement

Elkader's Justice of the Peace wonders how to enforce

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Still in effect now that war is over?

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Luana citizen notes the town's large numbers of Germans and their intransigence in speaking the language, especially during church services.

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Nashua mayor wonders about enforcement

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This "mostly German" county how thinks they can "talk what they want to" now that the war is over. Gets a bit violent thereafter, as he engages in patriotic fantasies: "I am a real yankey [sic] and I am getting damned tired of it if you get a club…

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Foreign languages overheard in Alta, Iowa.

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Clarification for Bennett

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Germans hold meeting place where they "gather to talk play cards [sic] and discuse [sic] all topics of the day." How do we shut this down?

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How to enforce in Tipton?

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Mayor writes regarding desire to rid Lowden of German language. How to proceed? Notes that in Davenport they've apparently been fining people [mostly women].

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