Place requests closing local German-language institutions, such as the parochial school.

Davis says intransigent church got in touch with him, gave a "plea for mercy [and] I told them there was no help for them." They stopped German-language instruction from there.

Complaint letter addressed to the chairman of the county council in regards to Private schools being taught strictly in German.

Article from Cornell College on German language learning in wartime. Keyes notes that there has never been more interest.

Letter from H. J. Metcalf to Mr. Anderson stating that he has no opposition to a Danish school being opened in Scranton, Iowa. He also states,

Local doctor comments favorably on Babel in light of Harding's commencement speech to Cornell and his words on teaching German at university.

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.

This letter from Dr. H. L. Avery to Herbert J. Metcalf was a respond a previous letter from Metcalf that was informed about suspicion activity of a German school in Sanborn, Iowa. Metcalf had asked Dr. Avery to investigate. Dr. Avery uncovered that…

Five pages from a German-language work on the English language, written in 1890 and printed by the German-American press in the first decade of the twentieth century.

The eulogy includes three "episodes" on the life of Dr. Paul Laube, Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Dubuque, Iowa and faculty member at the University of Dubuque. The eulogy describes Dr. Laube's Christian character, his sentiments…