Joseph Eiboeck, incoming editor of the Staats-Anzeiger, greets his new readers and explains his goals for the paper. He notes that, while he wishes to keep the paper politically independent, he is currently inclined to cast his lot with the…

Illustrated image of Joseph Klein's City Brewery in Decorah, Iowa, situated in three buildings upon a river.

On German language

Editorial celebrating the 'glorious fourth' in the context of prohibition laws and the un-fourth-like attack on the civil liberties of German Americans.

On the Kamrar congregation

Short excerpt of speech by Karl Schurz noting the beauty of the German language and the reconcilability of the German language and American identity.

This "mostly German" county how thinks they can "talk what they want to" now that the war is over. Gets a bit violent thereafter, as he engages in patriotic fantasies: "I am a real yankey [sic] and I am getting damned tired of it if you get a club…

Charles and Sarah stand in front of their recently completed house in Mount Vernon, Iowa

Keyes writes from Berlin

Keyes writes American family from Duesseldorf. He talks about the journey from London to Germany.