Letter from The Grinnell Register explaining the steps they took to encourage application to the U.S. public Service Reserve. They are at a loss as how to proceed beyond what they have done.
This is a letter to a Dr. H.L. Avery asking him to investigate a German School that opened in Sanborn, IA. Metcalf suspects that it might be a cover to teach secular subjects in German language which is illegal but asks to check them out and make…
This return letter from Wasson details his contributions to the war effort, as requested by HJM, in order to testify against his being a slacker. He describes, in a charcoal pencil scrawl on a small slip of paper, all of the grain he has stockpiled…
This letter is addressed to a Linden farmer, John Wasson, who had presumably been suspected by others in his community of being a slacker. HJM reports that his
HJM advises a W. W. Anderson here about a previous request he had made about the opening of a Danish school in Scranton. While HJM does say that he does not see why the school should not be opened, he also says that, as with German, the American…
