Frank Orren Lowden correspondence, 1917-1921.

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Frank Orren Lowden correspondence, 1917-1921.

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Correspondence primarily concerns state, federal, and military activities during WWI. Wartime topics include fuel conservation, daylight-saving time, patriotism, savings stamps, censorship, aliens operating businesses in Illinois, anti-German demonstrations, home defense, liberty bond sales, teaching German in schools, sedition, muntions plant speakers, German sympathizers, "fight or work" orders, Bureau of Investigation, American plan, federal railroad takeover, Collinsville lynching of a "pro-German agitator." Military information includes the draft, army camps, uniforms, food, pay, furloughs, hospitals, Scott Field, Rock Island Arsenal, soldier voting, discharges, demobilization and farm work for returning soldiers. Other significicant topics relate to agriculture, law enforcement, national highway laws, farm loans, child labor, wage tax withholdings and the Chicago Commission on Race Relations appointed by the Governor to investigate the 1919 Chicago race riot. Most correspondents are local, state, and federal officials or business, social and cultural leaders.

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