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Summerset Township chairman reporting on Kurtz's services. All seems on the up and up, in line with the privileges given him earlier to speak German selectively to older members. He also has demonstrated patriotism in other means.
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Community leader sends in transcript of resolution adopted by Lutheran Church members
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Transcription of article from Cedar Rapids periodicals in support of Babel.
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Local wondering whether German communities can again preach in German, as war recently over.
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City Marshal writes of Germans disregarding Babel and threatens potential violence
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Local CoD member gives update. All going well with schools, German Lutheran ministers still quite "obstreperous," however.
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Th. Storck and Sherwood A. Celous write a joint letter to H.J. Metcalf concerning the councils continued work on discontinuing the use of the German language in schools and churches. They speak of their own towns dealings with German
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German ministers informing on each other? The writer discusses various Carroll county Lutheran ministers and their varying degrees of allegiance to Babel. He encloses a letter to one of these, Reverend John Ringold in Arcadia.
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Waging losing battle, Rev. Blaufuss implores Koeberle to "protest most emphatically" to Harding over Babel. Koeberle adds at end of letter than Blaufuss has sowed dissent repeatedly.
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