• Collection: GERMAN-IOWAN NEWSPAPERS
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The announcement explains that Valentin Peter has purchased the Iowa Staats-Anzeiger following the death of Joseph Eiboeck. Not mentioned here is that Peter was already publisher of the Omaha Tribüne and had previously purchased the Council Bluffs…
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Announcement of upcoming events in the Des Moines Turner Hall: a Mardi Gras Maskenball and performances of "The First Lunch" by Karl Görlitz and "The Promise Made behind the Stove" by Alexander Baumann
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Ad placed by the Des Moines Turners in the Iowa Staats-Anzeiger, with announcements a Mardi Gras masquerade ball as well as for two plays performed in the Turner Hall: "Die Eifersüchtigen" (The Jealous) by Roderich Benedix; "List und Phlegma"…
Die Deutsche Presse in Amerika_1Sept1899.pdf

On the need for a German-language press for German migrants.
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Nicholas Gonner, editor of the Iowa, comments on Joseph Eiboeck's new English-language anti-temperance paper, the State Independent. Despite Gonner's support of the paper, he is concerned that Eiboeck's lack of religious sensibilities will alienate…
Report on Francis Murphy Temperance Preacher Visit_29Sept1899.pdf

Largely-neutral report of Francis Murphy's speech to saloon keepers in context of his prohibitionism.
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THE ROAD TO DICTATORSHIP Now open wide thanks to Leipzig Verdict Leipzig. The recent verdict of the Reichsgericht (Imperial Court of Justice), which approved the assumption of authority over the Prussian state government by a Reichskommissar…
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Iowa City Beer Riots Beer riots similar to those on the West Side [of Carroll] occurred in Iowa City, and if the Gentlemen Prohibitionists had their sights set on blood, then blood may indeed flow on account of this shameful Prohibition Act. The…
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Incoming editor Paul Krüger thanks his readers in German for their positive comments regarding his changes in the typeface and layout of the Iowa Staats-Anzeiger. In English, he announces that he will do his best to continue the paper's…
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PEACE ! PEACE ! andUNION ! Peace, peace--which we had always sought to maintain, and the establishment of which was our continuous goal for four years--blessed peace finally appears near, nearer than ever before. The vast bulk of the regular army of…
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