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Wellsburg Congregations

On Babel's effects in a Wellsburg congregation.

Tags: 1918; Anti-German Sentiment; Babel Proclamation; Council of Defense; German Language; Religious Services; Women; World War I

Wayland Telephones

German over the wire in Wayland.

Tags: 1918; Anti-German Sentiment; Babel Proclamation; Council of Defense; German Language; Telephones; Women; World War I

Waverly, Iowa Library

Mrs. E. L. Kenney replying to H. J. Metcalf assuring him that she went through the entire library and they do not have one

Tags: 1918; Leisure; Libraries; Women

War Work

Delia on war work in Wellsburg.

Tags: 1918; Anti-German Sentiment; Babel Proclamation; Council of Defense; German Language; Women; World War I

Trussell to Harding

Trussell again to Harding

Tags: Anti-German Sentiment; Babel Proclamation; Council of Defense; German Language; Women; World War I

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The National Women

Tags: 1918; Chicago, Illinois; National Women's Trade Union League of America; Women

Templeton to Harding

Tags: 1918; Anti-German Sentiment; Babel Proclamation; Council of Defense; German Language; Women; World War I

Swedish Intransigence

Swedish pastor announced he'll keep preaching in Swedish

Tags: 1918; Anti-German Sentiment; Babel Proclamation; Council of Defense; German Language; Religious Services; Swedish Language; Women; World War I

Situation in Muscatine

Susan Stone on the situation in Muscatine and local Germans and religion.

Tags: 1918; Anti-German Sentiment; Babel Proclamation; Council of Defense; German Language; Women; World War I

Sedition in Denver

Widow of German-American writes from Ohio, noting that husband asked to join secret society of German Americans who would fight for Fatherland in case of war. Centered in Denver, Iowa.

Tags: 1917; Disloyalty; Ohio; Women; World War I