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Petition to use Norwegian and Danish

Beer submits request for religious service exemption.

Telephones in Grundy Center.

A composed portrait of German-American opera singer Rose Ettinger taken in Berlin during one of her pre-First-World-War tours of Europe.

A scrapbook page containing two images: Tabitha Linn Gotter, the mother of Bertha Hedges; Bertha's elementary classmates and teacher in Greene County in the 1890s.

Did CoD authorise anti-German-language placard? Says no.

Refugee children playing with the hostel's dinner bell.

Desires proclamation against "mob violence" against pro-Germans, which "disgrace[s]" the state. Nonetheless, explicitly against disloyal pro-German elements. Attaches news clippings.

Poem titled 'Stay German' advocating retaining German language use in German-American families.