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Keyes writes family from Freiburg. He talks about attempts to trace Sadie's father's German roots. To that end, they meet family members and visit Wiebelskirchen.

Keyes writes American family from Duesseldorf. He talks about the journey from London to Germany.

Charles and Sarah stand in front of their recently completed house in Mount Vernon, Iowa

This "mostly German" county how thinks they can "talk what they want to" now that the war is over. Gets a bit violent thereafter, as he engages in patriotic fantasies: "I am a real yankey [sic] and I am getting damned tired of it if you get a club…

Short excerpt of speech by Karl Schurz noting the beauty of the German language and the reconcilability of the German language and American identity.

Editorial celebrating the 'glorious fourth' in the context of prohibition laws and the un-fourth-like attack on the civil liberties of German Americans.
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