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Worker in general store notes Germans saying they'll "talk German whenever they please."

Civil War is upon us. People's passions are kindled, all party distinctions fall away, and everyone must adopt a firm stance. Whatever our differences of opinion before, we are all in agreement that this Union, which took us in under its protective…

moved publication to Breda in 1884

Iowa's longest-lived German-language newspaper

F.H. Osborn writes to Governor Harding about the lack of cooperation from War organizations such as the Red Cross, Liberty Loans, Y.M.C.A. and the Y.W.C.A, asking for Harding

Call to meeing for foreign-language ministers.

John C. Orth, president of The German-American Patriotic Association, writes to H.J. Metcalf about his plans for a mass meeting in Buffalo Center Iowa to discuss why America is in the War and German Kulture and War Practices, and in request to help…

Orth to Harding from Hotel Calmar.

Waverly Orphanage's resolution and thoughts on foreign-language instruction.