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Request from father of soldier son to be deputized in order to stop local Germans.

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Support for Babel, as German enemy of "real civilization."

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On the legality of placing English-only signs throughout county.

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Methodist minister writes forceful letter in support of Babel, in which deep-seated anti-Germanism plays no small role.

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Board of Ed. Endorses Babel, especially regarding German language, as seen in move to discontinue German-language classes.

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Postwar. Member of Lutheran congregation, for English-only, now bemoans those "old German heads" of the church trying to reinstate German services. Can the governor help him in stamping this out?

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Babel Defiance on account of local community's struggle against "Prussian autocracy."

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Forceful editorial against Babel Proclamation, citing easy reconcilability of Germanness and American national identity.

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Forceful letter against Babel Proclamation, especially section in which letter writer says "if you force me to use the English language

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Author notes that all Europeans are foreign to this land and English therefore refused at some point to give up their language for native languages here. Moreover, notes that Iowa only entity outlawing foreign languages.

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