• Tags: 1918
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Governor's office on situation: "these people cannot be good Americans and continue talking the German language."

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Anderson again on Danes

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Anonymous letter sends clipping on Babel and Catholicism

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Notes that some have taken down signs put up on businesses recently added that state the need to speak th e English language.

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Forceful letter against Babel Proclamation, especially section in which letter writer says "if you force me to use the English language

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Forceful Babel Editorial_Der tägliche Demokrat_May 29, 1918.pdf

Forceful editorial against Babel Proclamation, citing easy reconcilability of Germanness and American national identity.

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Babel Defiance on account of local community's struggle against "Prussian autocracy."

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Board of Ed. Endorses Babel, especially regarding German language, as seen in move to discontinue German-language classes.

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Methodist minister writes forceful letter in support of Babel, in which deep-seated anti-Germanism plays no small role.

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On the legality of placing English-only signs throughout county.

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