• Tags: 1919

Circulated letter of Harding regarding post-war and veteran business
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Harding responds: I'll do something soon to keep up the Babel spirit "during post-bellum times."
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Harding doesn't do much to deter Waters to violence and doubles down on "spirit" of Babel.
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Inquiry after end of war regarding use of German in German church sermons.
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Kouba notes continued defiance by German Americans in Benton County
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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…
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Patriotic letter in support of language ban, as "where would freedom be found in our world today, if we had depended on Scandinavia and Germany to secure it for us?"
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Lamont pastor wondering about post-war language situation for religious worship.
Timmerman, 1919 Letter to Cornelius Steffens.pdf

According to an archival note from the University of Dubuque, this document was probably written by William O. Ruston, who was the president of the school from 1904-1908, about the circulation of the Dubuque Evangelist. William Ruston discusses two…
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