History -- written as it happened 120 years ago! Crime, accidents, commerce, entertainment, government, politics, transportation, births, deaths, marriages, anniversaries -- everything you expect in a newspaper! Tours of the Effingham Foundry and the Vandalia roundhouse, great account of the 1885 4th of July parade, and much more. Several stories are followed over a period of weeks or months. Includes surname index, introduction. Since the Volksblatt was a German-language newspaper, there's a special emphasis on German-Americans, but of course non-German newsmakers are also covered. Original German and English translation side-by-side.

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Surnames with at least 2 citations:
Allsop/Alsop Alt Althoff Arndt Bachmann Baer/Bear Bannin/Bennan Bartlet/Bartlett Becker Beckmann Bellchambers Bergfeld Bernhard Berning Bissell Blattner Boedker Boos Bosher/Bushur/Bushor Bourland Bowling Brahmstedt/Brahmstadt Braun Bremer Broom Brown Buckner Burbach Burger Burrell Butler Caldwell Campbell Cannon Casselmann/Casselman Clark Clutter Collins Cooper Costigan Crooker Curson Dahlen Daub Dennis Denny Denton Deters Dobbs Donnelly Doedtmann Dooley Drymann/Dryman/Dreyman Dust Ebert Eden Elbow Elton Engbring English Eversman/Eversmann Ewers Fayon/Fayan/Fagan Feldhake Feuerborn Filbeck Filler Finne Fischer Flach/Flack Fleming Fortney Freuler Friepartner Fruth Funk Funkhouser Gammen/Gammon Gassmann/Gossman/Gossmann Gerbe Gerdes Gilbert Gillenwater Gilmore/Gillmore Goodell Goebel Goldstein Gorrell Gravenhorst Green Greiner Greuel Groves Grupe Guyon Gwin Habing Having Hochlage Haeflinger/Hoeflinger/Hoefflinger/Hoefflicker/Hoeflicker Hammer Harman Harrah Hartmann Harvey Heffernan Heiligenstein Reinhardt/Reinhard Heistermann Heitkamp Heitstumann Hellman/Helman/Hellmann Hendelmeier Henning Hermann Hettinger Hill Hille Hilmes Hodebeck/Hodebecke Hoeny Hof Hoffman/Hoffmann Hogan Horsh/Horst/Hurst Howard Huells/Huels Hughes Huslage Hutchings Hynemann Jackson Jacobs Jakle Janson/Jansen Johnson Johnston Jones Jungbluth Jungmann Kabbes Kagay Kelly Kepley Ketteler/Kettler Keyler Kistner Kliesner Klink Knowles Knudson Kobold/Koboldt Koelker/Kulker/Kuelker Koenitzer Koester Kreke Lacy Lane Lange Langhof/Langhoff Lawson LeCrone Lee Lett Leverenz Lind Linn Little Loer Loy Ludwig Lukas Luno/Lunow Lybarger Marxmann Mathes Maurer/Mourer McClellan Meier Merz Messnard Mette Miller Mitchell Minor Moffit/Moffitt Moller Moore Morman/Mormann Murphy Mussman/Mussmann Naporra Niemann Noller Nolte Nosbisch Nuxoll O'Connell Ogden Osgood Ospring/Uhrsprung Osthoff Overbeck Painter Palm Pape Parks/Parks Partridge Pauli Paxton Penwell Pet/Pett Peters Pfeifer/Pheifer Phelan Pierman/Piermann Placke Pope Powell Rapp Rebel Reed Regelmann Register Reichhelm Reinhard/Reinhardt Reinholt Reis Reuther Reutlinger Reynolds Rickelman/Rickelmann Rieg Rinehart Ringwald Rohr Rost Rueschhoff St. Clair Saettele s.a. Settele Schellenbach Schifferstein Schleper Schmidt Schmitt Schnabelius Scholl Schuette Schwermann Scott Seifert/Siefert Shay Siemer Simpson Slaven Smith Sonnen Speck Spraker Stamm Steidel/Stidell Stern Stewart Stevenson Stockmann Storm Streiff/Streif Sulzer Surrells Tedderick/Tetterich/Tederick Tegenkamp Terstegge Thies Thoele Thoma Thompson Thueringer Tinnea Tischhauser Tjardes Underreiner Ungrund Uptmor Utz Van Allen Vandever Vicory Voelker Vogt Volkmann Von Gaffy Wade Walker Watkins Wallar Wands Warner Weaver Wernsing Werren West White Wiechelman/Wiechelmann Willenborg Williams Willien Wilming Wilmoth Wilson Witt Wittman Woerman/Worman/Wormann Wood Wright Yant Yoos/Yost Young Zimdars