Schwoabe-Spaetzle - Bound Volume of 91 Issues [May 23, 1917 - April 16, 1919] by [IMMIGRATION] [GERMAN-AMERICANS - WORLD WAR 1 - PERIODICALS] - 1917-1919

New York: Schwäbisches Wochenblatt, 1917-1919. First Edition. Ninety-one quarto (29.75cm.) issues bound together in contemporary reddish-brown cloth; illus. throughout. Textblock quite toned due to poor paper stock, light edge wear to cloth extremities, else Very Good and sound. Quite possibly complete set (the numbering ends after no. 13 (misprinted 31) and a few weeks appear to have been skipped). Humor supplement to the weekly Schwabian-American newspaper Schwäbisches Wochenblatt. Though we find no records for the New York-based newspaper or its supplement, we do find a newspaper of the same name published by the Social Democratic Party of Germany. This periodical also appears to be anti-capitalist, the cartoon on the first page of the first issue shows a worker slicing open the money-bag gut of Mammon. Most significantly, this periodical began publication months after the United States entered World War I, with much of the content on the plight of the German-born American citizens, (another cartoon shows an American citizen of German birth in a muzzle). We find no listings in OCLC as of June, 2017.