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The business angle: owners of telephone exchange ruminate on business consequences were local German speakers not in need of phone lines.

Request for permissions

Blessin "protests" Babel.

Impromptu organization to "investigate Pro-German activities among the citizens of our local community."

Impromptu organization of citizens to restrict German language.

Cover page of Augustus Sinning's registration book at the Friedrich-Wilhelm's-Universitaet in Berlin from the late nineteenth century.

Advertisements from the Dubuque National-Demokrat: the top-most one for costume rental; the middle one for a masquerade ball sponsored by the "Harmonie Damen-Verein" (Harmony Ladies' Club); the bottom one for a masquerade ball sponsored by the…

advertisements inviting the public to Christmas and New Year's celebrations organized by the Dubuque Turners

Three advertisements concerning Mardi Gras activities in Dubuque: 1) a masquerade ball in the German City Theater (Deutsches Stadttheater) with prize competition for the best costume; a ball in City Hall sponsored by the German Aid Society; a…

Nelson writes to W.E. Hall of the U.S. Department of Labor offering to volunteer to recruit people to enroll for the U.S. Public Service Reserve. Nelson writes from a Davenport, Iowa address.