Mr. Shortess does not exactly specify what he is trying to do, but you can tell he knows about someone of German heritage in the town. Many people in that time period expressed their patriotism by trying to

Writer notes effects of Babel on otherwise loyal Guttenberg congregation.

The business angle: owners of telephone exchange ruminate on business consequences were local German speakers not in need of phone lines.

Effects on loyal Sioux City congregation

Exemptions for Monona congregation. And they're loyal--see the father with 14 children who bought $500 worth of bonds on first day of availability.

Eiboeck, incoming editor of the Staats-Anzeiger, explains his goals for the paper. His main innovation is his "English Department": a weekly editorial column in English to reach non-German readers and advocate for "personal liberty" (and against…

Eiboeck devotes his second 'English Department" to a discussion of relations among American ethnicities and a
description of the "grandest event of the season in Des Moines," the Masquerade Ball held in the Turner Hall.

On postings and their relationship to German question

Elkader's Justice of the Peace wonders how to enforce

German Lutherans in Elma