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| Keywords: John Meintz, punished during World War I - NARA - 283633 (restored and edited v.2.).jpg On August 19 1918 amidst anti-German sentiment during World War I German-American farmer John Meints misspelled Meintz was taken from his home in Luverne Minnesota and driven to the border with South-Dakota There masked locals whipped him threatened to shoot him and tarred-and-feathered him forcing him to cross the border and threatening to hang him if he returned Meints named 32 of the men involved in a lawsuit but they were acquitted with the judge instructing the jury that the evidence strongly supported his disloyalty Meints later won an appeal and settled out of court in 1922 <ref>http //www startribune com/nov-16-1919-tarred-and-feathered/70155507/</ref> General notes 283633 Local identifier U S District Court for the Second Mankato Division of the District of Minnesota 04/26/1890 - ca 1951 Restored and edited by Rodrigo Argenton Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton NARA's Central Plains Region Kansas City NREA 400 West Pershing Road Kansas City MO 64108 circa 1917 1918 Record group Record Group 21 Records of District Courts of the United States 1685 - 2004 Record group ARC 350 District of Minnesota Mankato Law Cases compiled 1898 - 1938 Series ARC 283631 File unit John Meints v O R Huntington et al 1917 - 1918 File unit ARC 283632 Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NRE-21-MINNMANLAW-LAW121-MAN13 Other versions <gallery> File John_Meintz _punished_during_World_War_I_-_NARA_-_283633 tif tif original File John_Meintz _punished_during_World_War_I_-_NARA_-_283633 jpg jpg original File John Meintz punished during World War I - NARA - 283633 - restored tif tif restored </gallery> yes NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Repair rips clean scratches and dust curves contrast dogde and burn clone stamp the scotch tape cropped from File John_Meintz _punished_during_World_War_I_-_NARA_-_283633 tif Rodrigo Argenton John Meintz | ||||
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