<em>Iowa Staats-Anzeiger</em>: Rundschau über Iowa (survey of the German-Iowa press, with particular focus on temperance issues)
Temperance initiatives in Clinton; Clayton City saloon proprietor F. Taake robbed at gunpoint; gymnastics festival in Lansing (Bezirks-Turnfest des nordwestlichen Turnvereins); break-ins in Newton in the businesses of Wright and Son, Vaughan and Son, Gardner and Co., J.H. Chapman, Dubus and Bodly, and J. Meyer; Charles City and Osage raise the price of saloon licenses; acquittal of Adam Glab of Dubuque's Plankroad Brewery, who had refused to pay a license fee twice; temperance advocates pelted with eggs in Manchester
First "Rundschau über Iowa," Eiboeck's regular survey of notable news culled from the state's German newspapers
Joseph Eiboeck
Iowa Staats-Anzeiger
Joseph Eiboeck
7 May 1874
State Historical Society of Iowa
<a href="https://germansiniowa.lib.uiowa.edu/items/show/2282">https://germansiniowa.lib.uiowa.edu/items/show/2282</a>
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microfilm newspaper collections, State Historical Society of Iowa
Allamakee County; Clayton County; Clinton County; Delaware County; Dubuque County; Jasper County; Marshall County; Polk County
<em>Iowa City Daily Republican</em>: "The Very Latest" (eyewitness reports of the Iowa City Beer Riots)
Iowa City Beer Riots; Conrad Graf; John Dostal; John Englert; Horace Kimball; C. G. Swafford; Lewis Swafford; W. H. Bailey; Samuel Fairall; Mike O'Riley; J. W. Schell; J. J. Parrott; Milton Remley; Frank Schell; M. W. Davis; George Ewing; George J. Boal; L. H. Jackson; C. M. Reno; Women's Christian Temperance Union; Union Brewery; Great Western Brewery
A collection of eyewitness accounts concerning the Iowa City Beer Riots, which began during the trial of local brewers Conrad Graf and John Dostal for having violated the state's new Prohibition law by selling beer on July 4, 1884, the day the law went into effect. The trial was held in Scott Township to the east of Iowa City: following the tarring and feathering of H. Bailey, an attorney for the prosecution, a mob of anti-Prohibitionists, led by John J. Englert and Conrad Graf, followed two witnesses for the prosecution, the C. G. and Lewis Swafford, into town and threatened them with violence.
Stephen B. Howard (editor)
Iowa City Daily Republican
Republican Printing Co.
14 August 1884
State Historical Society of Iowa; Iowa City Public Library
From the <a href="http://iowacity.advantage-preservation.com/viewer/?t=33755&i=t&by=1884&bdd=1880&bm=8&bd=14&d=07011884-07311884&m=between&fn=iowa_city_daily_republican_usa_iowa_iowa_city_18840814_english_4&df=1&dt=4" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">August 14, 1884 issue of the Iowa City Daily Republican</a> in the digital historic newspaper collection of the Iowa City Public Library
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Iowa City Daily Republican, microfilm newspaper collection, State Historical Society of Iowa
Iowa City; Scott Township; Johnson County; 1884-08-14
<em>Iowa Staats-Anzeiger</em>: Unmasking a liar (<em>Ein Lügner blosgestellt</em>)
Eiboeck’s dispute with John P. Irish over saloon licensing at the Anti-Monopoly party convention; support of German voters; J.P. Stibolt, editor of the <em>Davenport Demokrat</em>; Frederick A. Gniffke, editor of the <em>Dubuque National-Demokrat</em>; Simeon Hotz? (co-owner of the Union Brewery in Iowa City); J.J. Hotz? (contractor and son-in-law of Louis Englert, founder of the City Brewery in Iowa City)
In reaction to a letter that John P. Irish had published in the German newspaper <em>Dubuque National-Demokrat</em>, which attacked Joseph Eiboeck's alledgedly insulting rhetoric in a speech at the Anti-Monopolist state convention in July 1874 in favor of including a license plank in the party platform, Eiboeck presents his version of events and defends his actions. In addition to a translation of an English-language declaration by leading citizens of Des Moines that Eiboeck did not use the language that Irish claimed, the article also contains a comparable statement by well-known German-Americans in Des Moines, including Conrad Beck, Eiboeck's predecessor as editor of the <em>Iowa Staats-Anzeiger</em>.
Joseph Eiboeck
Iowa Staats-Anzeiger
Joseph Eiboeck
1874-07-30
State Historical Society of Iowa
<a href="https://germansiniowa.lib.uiowa.edu/items/show/2292"><em>Iowa Staats-Anzeiger</em>: A lying, malicious attack (Ein verlogener, niederträchtiger Angriff)</a><br /><br />"<a href="http://publications.iowa.gov/31029/1/Winter2019.pdf">Iowa's Prohibition Plague: Joseph Eiboeck's Account of the Battle over Prohibition</a>," The Annals of Iowa 78 (2019): 1-74, at 15-16.
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Iowa City Historical Library Newspaper Collection Microfilm, State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
1874; Iowa; Des Moines; Polk County; Dubuque County; Scott County; Johnson County
The <em>Iowa</em>: Joseph Eiboeck's new <em>State Independent</em>
State Independent; Joseph Eiboeck
Nicholas Gonner, editor of the <em>Iowa</em>, comments on Joseph Eiboeck's new English-language anti-temperance paper, the <em>State Independent</em>. Despite Gonner's support of the paper, he is concerned that Eiboeck's lack of religious sensibilities will alienate potential readers.
Nicholas Gonner
<em>Iowa: Ein katholisches Wochenblatt für den Nordwesten der Ver. Staaten</em>
Deutsche Katholische Druck-Gesellschaft (German Catholic Printing Agency)
12 February 1880
State Historical Society of Iowa
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Des Moines; Polk County; Dubuque; Dubuque County
<em>Iowa Staats-Anzeiger,</em> Iowa Press Review
support for Anti-Monopoly party; woman suffrage; Republican party; party allegiance of German voters; Des Moines City License referendum; Turner Picknick; opinions of Davenport Demokrat, Carroll Demokrat, Dubuque National-Demokrat, Elkader Herold, Clinton Volkszeitung, Lansing Post, Dubuque Times, State Register, Dubuque Herald
Eiboeck reviews both German and English newspapers in the state regarding matters of interest to "liberal" German voters. Some German papers have endorsed the Anti-Monopoly party ticket, while others advise rejecting the party, which refused to include a saloon licensing plank in its platform. Additional columns concern German positions on woman suffrage and the Republican party.
Joseph Eiboeck
Iowa Staats-Anzeiger
Joseph Eiboeck
1874-07-23
Iowa State Historical Society
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Iowa City Historical Library Newspaper Collection Microfilm, State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Iowa; 1874; Des Moines; Polk County
A lying, malicious attack<em> (Ein verlogener, niederträchtiger Angriff</em>)
Eiboeck’s dispute with John P. Irish over saloon licensing at the Anti-Monopoly party convention
In reaction to a letter John P. Irish had published in the German newspaper <em>Dubuque National-Demokrat</em>, attacking Joseph Eiboeck's rhetoric in a speech at the Anti-Monopolist state convention in July 1874 in favor of including a license plank in the party platform, Eiboeck publishes an affidavit in his own newspaper, accusing Irish of lying and political blackmailing.
Joseph Eiboeck
Iowa Staats-Anzeiger
Joseph Eiboeck
1874-07-23
State Historical Society of Iowa
<a href="https://germansiniowa.lib.uiowa.edu/items/show/2300"><em>Iowa Staats-Anzeiger</em>: Unmasking a Liar</a><br /><br />"<a href="http://publications.iowa.gov/31029/1/Winter2019.pdf">Iowa's Prohibition Plague: Joseph Eiboeck's Account of the Battle over Prohibition</a>," The Annals of Iowa 78 (2019): 1-74, at 15-16.
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Iowa City Historical Library Newspaper Collection Microfilm, State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
1874; Iowa; Des Moines; Polk County
<em>Iowa Staats-Anzeiger</em>: To the Members of the German-American Liberal League of Iowa
Joseph Eiboeck; Deutsch-Amerikanischer Liberaler Staatsverband von Iowa; Max Rathberger; Charles Sass; J. Baumbach; John Rath; Dubuque; Waterloo; Dysart; personal liberty
Joseph Eiboeck, who had passed away on 8 January 1913, had been president of the German-American Liberal League of Iowa. With the annual meeting of the league imminent, Paul Krüger, secretary of the organization, requests that other members of the League contact him in person or by letter regarding the proper course of action following Eiboeck's death.
The John Rath mentioned here is likely the father of John Washington (J.W.) Rath, co-founder of the Rath Packing Company of Waterloo.
Paul Krüger
Iowa Staats-Anzeiger
Paul Krüger
17 January 1913
State Historical Society of Iowa
Joseph Eiboeck obituary: <a href="https://germansiniowa.lib.uiowa.edu/items/show/2286" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://germansiniowa.lib.uiowa.edu/items/show/2286</a>
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microfilm newspaper collections, State Historical Society of Iowa
Iowa; Des Moines; Polk County
<em>Iowa Staats-Anzeiger</em>: Eiboeck's "English Department" moves to the front page
current events; politics; Anti-Monopoly state convention; candidates for state office; Henry Kellner; John Kasson; S.H. Fairall; Prohibition
Three months into his tenure as editor, Eiboeck moved the <em>Staats-Anzeiger</em>'s English-language editorials, his so-called "English Department," to the front page of the paper. In all subsequent issues, an overview of state news appears in German in the left-hand columns, including the feature "Rundschau über Iowa," while English-language news and editorials appears on the right. The Feuilleton section, which had previously occupied the front page, moved to page 2.<br /><br />Due to the large size of the original, file 1 reproduces the top left of the front page; file 2 the bottom left; file 3 the top right; file 4 the bottom right.
Joseph Eiboeck
Iowa Staats-Anzeiger
Joseph Eiboeck
7 May 1874
State Historical Society of Iowa
First page of first issue under Eiboeck's editorship: <a href="https://germansiniowa.lib.uiowa.edu/items/show/2280">https://germansiniowa.lib.uiowa.edu/items/show/2280</a><br /><br />"Rundschau über Iowa" from this page, with transcription: <a href="https://germansiniowa.lib.uiowa.edu/items/show/2354">https://germansiniowa.lib.uiowa.edu/items/show/2354</a>
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microfilm newspaper collections, State Historical Society of Iowa
Des Moines; Iowa; Polk County
Eiboeck's second "English Department": "A Homogenous People" and "The Masquerade Ball"
American ethnicities; melting pot; prejudice & xenophobia; Mardi Gras; costumes & masks
Eiboeck devotes his second 'English Department" to a discussion of relations among American ethnicities and a
description of the "grandest event of the season in Des Moines," the Masquerade Ball held in the Turner Hall.
Joseph Eiboeck
Iowa Staats-Anzeiger
Joseph Eiboeck
21 February 1874
State Historical Society of Iowa
ad for 1874 Turner Hall Masquerade Ball: https://germansiniowa.lib.uiowa.edu/items/show/2279
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microfilm newspaper collections, State Historical Society of Iowa
Des Moines; Iowa; Mardi Gras; Polk County
Eiboeck's Inaugural "English Department"
German press; Iowa politics; temperance; license law; Treasurer of State; Henry Kellner
Eiboeck, incoming editor of the <em>Staats-Anzeiger</em>, explains his goals for the paper. His main innovation is his "English Department": a weekly editorial column in English to reach non-German readers and advocate for "personal liberty" (and against Prohibition) "in the language in which it will be most effective."
Joseph Eiboeck
Iowa Staats-Anzeiger
Joseph Eiboeck
14 February 1874
State Historical Society of Iowa
https://germansiniowa.lib.uiowa.edu/items/show/2276
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microfilm newspaper collections, State Historical Society of Iowa
Des Moines; Iowa; Polk County