How the war was framed as one protecting humanity from Germany and the warning towards German aliens give some interesting context into how they thought about Germans.

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Like many newspapers of the period, the Iowa Staats-Anzeiger published annual New Year's greetings for its readers. This greeting includes a poem on the new year of 1889, which reveals the Democratic leanings of the paper by lamenting that Grover…

Complementary Calendar for readers of the Dubuque National-Demokrat; the accompanying text notes that the newspaper was founded in 1856, making 1886 the 30th anniversary of its founding.

Report on the provisions of the new law for the licensing of the sale of alcoholic beverages; distinctions between wholesale and retail sales

Farmer wants his neighbors to stop speaking German.

Lauer pressing. Needs rapid clarification, as "there is a critical situation in our county and state at this time," and people need to know exact meaning of Babel.

Article reporting on Nebraska survey of local German communities, finding much of which to be afraid therein.

Cross-generational photograph of Nauman family members taken in 1906 in Blairstown, Iowa. The backside lists family members present.

For a national law against foreign languages, using local situation as example. His daughter's school was delayed until the neighboring German children had strong enough command of English.