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Dawson writes about Blaufuss and his refusal to comply with Babel. He suggests legal, semi-strong-arming means by which to make him.

Secret service agents weren't able to dissuade intransigent minister.

Local writes to Metcalf and Council of Defense on demographic makeup of county [95% German].

The front page of the Dubuque Times-Journal is mostly celebrating the end of the First World War. However, on the left-hand side of the front page is an editorial about the end of the war. The editorial is Anti-German in all its language. The…

The front page of this newspaper was celebrating the end of the Spanish-American war. There is an interesting cartoon about Aguinaldo showing the growing respect that the Americans gained for him throughout the war. The newspaper front page is…

This document is an appeal to the Supreme Court of Iowa from the University of Dubuque. The Appeal provides insight into the relationship between Germans and non-Germans in Dubuque around the time of World War I, including anti-German sentiment. …

Concerns over German influence on draft boards, noting the suspicious number of exemptions allowed in Bremer County--and the many new "divinity students" in Wartburg Cemetary.

A tale of the hardships experienced by two immigrant families during their journey to Illinois

Colorful denunciation of local Germans, who persist in "continually blabber[ing] their slop bucket dutch."

A telling of the heart of German religious life, which centered in Illinois. The first of the German parish formed in southern Illinois. Both Catholic and Protestant