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Change the proclamation from "should" to "would" to give it some teeth.

Wonders whether Babel a "law that can be enforced, or is it only a request."

Tripoli mayor asks for clarification on methods of enforcement

Response to letter writer regarding difficulty of enforcing Babel.

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].

Clarence and John M. Englert relax c. 1920 in the office of the Englert Ice Co., located in the former Englert Brewery. On the wall hangs the portrait of their father John J. Englert, who together with his brother-in-law Frank Rittenmeyer assumed…

German-language newspaper includes English-language editorial denouncing prohibition as historic attack on liberty and return to barbarism.
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