• Tags: 1917
198708-997118 - Gustafson Johnie - May 3, 2016 1000 PM - GustafsonJ D.J.MurphytoH.J.Metcalf Metcalf_1.jpg

This letter is addressed to Herbert J. Metcalf from D. J. Murphy, and attorney from Waukon, Iowa. This letter informs Metcalf that there is a $136.00 Check enclosed to raise money for the men from Allamakee at Camp Dodge. It was noted that theā€¦
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Some foresight here. Mosher requests, pre-Babel, a law making it illegal to speak German in church services.
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Informing on disloyalty, overhearing remark: "President Wilson is a son of a bitch a damn stie worse than Villa."
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Concerns over German influence on draft boards, noting the suspicious number of exemptions allowed in Bremer County--and the many new "divinity students" in Wartburg Cemetary.
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Report of Carroll County COD meeting, with some news of pro-German groups being created.
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Pre-Babel plea to Americanize German-American communities throughout state, and in Allamakee.
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