This letter is written by a citizen of Clarence, Iowa, stating that German was not being taught in any of the public schools. After pointing this out, the writer informs his subject that there was a German Lutheran Church conducting its services in…

Anecdotal reports on the increase in the demand for whiskey, activities of possible informants at pharmacies, and a beer-free circus.

Keyes writes third letter to family in Iowa from London.

The secretary of South Dakota state council of defense asks Mr. Metcalf to mail him a copy of all Iowa

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 the…

In 1860, the Iowa Wöchentliche Post, a Republican newspaper based in Des Moines, announced the nomination of Abraham Lincoln as Republican candidate for President to its readers.

Local German preacher expresses disappointment in Babel, especially in light of the German-language stumping he undertook two years ago for the governor, which, he notes, the "election showed [was] not in vain."

Article bemoaning potential prohibition as of a piece with longer-lineaged nativist attacks on the civil rights of German Americans.

A private correspondence between H.A. Davis and H.J. Metcalf, in which Metcalf has persuaded Davis to

A St. Louis bank named,