Front Page of Waverly, Iowa's Iowa Volksblatt

Three advertisements concerning Mardi Gras activities in Dubuque: 1) a masquerade ball in the German City Theater (Deutsches Stadttheater) with prize competition for the best costume; a ball in City Hall sponsored by the German Aid Society; a…

advertisements inviting the public to Christmas and New Year's celebrations organized by the Dubuque Turners

Advertisements from the Dubuque National-Demokrat: the top-most one for costume rental; the middle one for a masquerade ball sponsored by the "Harmonie Damen-Verein" (Harmony Ladies' Club); the bottom one for a masquerade ball sponsored by the…

Editorial from German-language paper concerning temperance.

Article commenting on proposed 'draconian' prohibition law.

Article on potential prohibition law from perspective of saloonkeepers.

German-language newspaper includes English-language editorial denouncing prohibition as historic attack on liberty and return to barbarism.

Article bemoaning potential prohibition as of a piece with longer-lineaged nativist attacks on the civil rights of German Americans.

Report on beer riots in Johnson County in response to state prohibition laws.