• Tags: Informants
june 28 17.JPG

Wants to surreptitiously check out men in question. They should be "taught a drastic lesson."

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april 11 17.JPG

Informing on disloyalty, overhearing remark: "President Wilson is a son of a bitch a damn stie worse than Villa."

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june 5 18.JPG

Enthusiastic and jocular acclimation of recent dissolution of German-language courses in Waukon Schools from Waukon, Iowa's The Democrat.

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Including newspaper clipping and account of seditious speech from local German farmers.

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The father of a soldier writes Harding, noting that Germans in town "congregate" and speak German in "their sneering way."

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Report over foreign-language use on telephone. It is unclear whether the language is German or "Swiss."

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june 6 18.JPG

Short letter noting acts of disloyalty throughout town.

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Three-page handwritten letter to Governor Harding on German Language Issue

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may 21 18.JPG

Summerset Township chairman reporting on Kurtz's services. All seems on the up and up, in line with the privileges given him earlier to speak German selectively to older members. He also has demonstrated patriotism in other means.

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Metcalf's response to Carlson's letter.

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