• Tags: Informants
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Three-page handwritten letter to Governor Harding on German Language Issue

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june 6 18.JPG

Short letter noting acts of disloyalty throughout town.

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Report over foreign-language use on telephone. It is unclear whether the language is German or "Swiss."

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The father of a soldier writes Harding, noting that Germans in town "congregate" and speak German in "their sneering way."

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Including newspaper clipping and account of seditious speech from local German farmers.

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june 5 18.JPG

Enthusiastic and jocular acclimation of recent dissolution of German-language courses in Waukon Schools from Waukon, Iowa's The Democrat.

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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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june 28 17.JPG

Wants to surreptitiously check out men in question. They should be "taught a drastic lesson."

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6 29 18.JPG

Secret service agents weren't able to dissuade intransigent minister.

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Two men note men speaking German indignantly on street and, when approached to stop, saying that he "would talk German any time he pleased and that it was none of my business no bodys D--N business [sic]."

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