• Tags: Liberty Bonds

Colorful denunciation of local Germans, who persist in "continually blabber[ing] their slop bucket dutch."

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Pastor asks for concession for sake of older congregation memebers, noting his own loyalty and sacrifices.

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Burling writes regarding county Council of Defense business.

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Watzke made the disloyal comment that "the Liberty Bonds were only worth fifty-cents on the dollar at the banks."

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Prominent local German appointed to write regarding the loyalty of Arcadia's Germans as well as their difficulty in abiding by Babel.

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Burling notes several churches which have continued to speak in German, under guise of submitting formal request to Governor to do so.

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Banner 8 of the 2016/2017 exhibit on "German Iowa and the Global Midwest"

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This letter is in response to a letter from the Chairman of the Iowa Council of National Defense, Lafayette Young, dated November 9, 1917. Jacob Russ is responding to the accusation that he does not whole-heartedly support the United States…

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Vollmar notes the "old men and women weep[ing] aloud when I announced that this would probably be the last service in the german language [sic]."

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Warning citizens that if they have not purchased loan bonds that they should before Friday or else their name and amount will not be printed with the rest of the names. Ties into Mrs. Mattie Calbreath being unpatriotic.

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