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Date: November 9, 1918
This article, published in the Topeka Capital, details the efforts of Gustav C. Kothe to retain his property in Salina, Kansas. Kothe, an American consular agent in Germany, failed to…
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Date: June 9, 1918
This article published in the Kansas City Star claims that Pottawatomie County is the most disloyal county in Kansas. The article claims that the reason for such widespread disloyalty is…
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Date: June 5, 1918
This article, published in the June 5, 1918, edition of the Topeka Capital, details the removal of Wamego State Bank president and director Loius B. Leach due to “slackerism.” Specifically,…
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Date: June 1, 1918
This article published in the Topeka Capital details the difficulties of Paul Frederick von Hindenburg, nephew of German Field Marshall Paul von Hindenburg. Hindenburg’s request for naturalization was denied by…
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Date: June 6, 1917
This article printed in the Topeka Capital covers the decision to house around 600 conscientious objectors at Fort Leavenworth for the duration of World War I. The purpose of sending…
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Date: September 19, 1918
This article published in the Topeka Capital covers the decision to restrict the movement of non-naturalized German American women in Topeka, Kansas, as long as the U.S. was at war…
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Date: February 19, 1918
This article published in the Topeka Journal covers the story of Daniel Klege. Klege, a 75 year old resident of Topeka, Kansas, and veteran of the Civil War, was ordered…
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Date: January 13, 1918
This article published in the Topeka Capital addresses the decision by the Kansas State Board of Agriculture to deny Kansas Mennonites status as Conscientious Objector exempting them from service in…
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Date: May 10, 1918
This article printed in the Topeka Capital covers the tarring of German American pastor Reverend Gustav Gastrock of Lawrence, Kansas. Reverend Gastrock was tarred by three men who probably attacked…
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Date: January 3, 1918
This article published in the Topeka Journal covers the decision to register all non-naturalized German Americans in cities with a population of over 5,000.
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Date: January 1, 1918
This article printed in the Topeka Capital details an incident involving Charles H. Johnson and Joseph Fisckale, both of whom expressed sympathies for the Germany and Austria. Turned in by…
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Date: December 1, 1918
This article, published December 1, 1917 in the Topeka Journal, covers the ruling by the Kansas Attorney General, S.M. Brewster, that German Americans who had not yet naturalized could not…
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Date: January 8, 1920
W.L. Wells, a Girard, Kansas resident, writes to Governor Allen that the proposed Industrial Bill would not hurt coal miners and that the more miners who read up on the…
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Date: June 19, 1917
This article, published in the June 19, 1917, edition of the Topeka Capital addresses the law prohibiting German immigrants who were not naturalized U.S. citizens from entering the Topeka Business…
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Date: December 18, 1919
Kansas Representative Scott writes to Kansas Governor Allen in response to the call for a special session of the Kansas legislature. “I recognize a call to perform one of the…
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Date: January 14, 1920
In this letter, George Rathbun of Sedan, Kansas, tells Governor Allen that after being much older than Allen, he knows striking is not the fault of laborers but belongs to…
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Date: January 7, 1920
Local Union No. 533, U.M.W. of A., from Pittsburg Kansas, writes to Governor Allen protesting the proposed Court of Industrial Relations bill which they state would provide penalties on workers…
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Date: January 3, 1920
In this press release to the Philadelphia Public Ledger in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Clyde Reed, Secretary to Kansas Governor Henry Allen, outlines the purpose of the proposed Court of Industrial Relations…
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Date: December 29, 1919
This resolution was created in response to the governor calling for a special session of the Kansas Legislature to pass the proposed Kansas Court of Industrial Relations legislation, which would…
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Date: January 5 - 11, 1920
In response to the proposed legislation for the Kansas Court of Industrial Relation or the “anti-strike law”, the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers and Iron Ship Builders writes to Kansas Governor…
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Date: February 26, 1920
W.M. Nelson, a black miner in Croweburg, Kansas, writes Governor Allen about pending legislation involving the Court of Industrial Relations. This legislation would have a panel in charge of hearing…
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Date: May 1877
This large brochure contains a full map on one side of Kansas, Colorado, and portions of surrounding states including the Black Hills of South Dakota. The reverse side has a…
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Date: Between 1870 and 1890
This large map of the Kansas Pacific Railway routes in Kansas and Colorado encourages travel to Leadville, Fair Play, Ten Mile, Chalk Bluff and other mining locales in Colorado.
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Date: 1878
This brochure advertises the Kansas Pacific Railway’s “Golden Belt Route” by a map of their lines from Kansas City and Leavenworth to Kit Carson, La Junta, Denver, Trinidad, Greeley in…
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Date: Between 1870 and 1880
Handbills advertising a Kansas Pacific excursion train from an unknown location to Leavenworth, Kansas, for the Sangerfest, a musical festival. Round trip tickets are $1.50 for sale at Rowley’s Drug…
