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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…

Support from Buffalo Center Community Club.

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…

Stamping out the Nonpartisan League in Kanawha.

Local CoD member gives update. All going well with schools, German Lutheran ministers still quite "obstreperous," however.

Susan Stone on the situation in Muscatine and local Germans and religion.

German professor, Melchert, going to continue speaking German.

CoD member notes Henry Weiss saying "I believe that Germany will lick United States yet, and I hope that she does!"

A collection of eyewitness accounts concerning the Iowa City Beer Riots, which began during the trial of local brewers Conrad Graf and John Dostal for having violated the state's new Prohibition law by selling beer on July 4, 1884, the day the law…

Info on language and history of Davenport congregation.