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Writing his Senator, Rand suggests putting German prisoners of war to work in the Yakima Valley. NOTE: "I think a large percent of these Germans will never go back to Germany, but will settle right there in the Valley." Not a trace of concern over…
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Rand extrapolates on original plan, basically anticipating the program as it looks in WWII
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Announcement of the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad advertising land for sale, starting at $5 per acre
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Man of the people notes that many long-time German residents still cannot speak English.
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Informant on German alien near Schleswig supposedly advising local Germans to join army and shoot their officers.
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Image of the inside title page of Chapter Seventeen from the revised 1873 immigration handbook published by the Iowa Board of Immigration.
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image of the first page of Chapter Two from the revised 1873 immigration handbook published by the Iowa Board of Immigration
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image of the first page of Chapter Three from the revised 1873 immigration handbook published by the Iowa Board of Immigration
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image of the first page of Chapter Four from the revised 1873 immigration handbook published by the Iowa Board of Immigration
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image of the first page of Chapter Five from the revised 1873 immigration handbook published by the Iowa Board of Immigration
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