Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1918 — Drop Word “German.” [ARTICLE]

Drop Word “German.”

For business as well as patriotic reasons, many national banks bearing the word “German” in their titles have recently applied to the controller of the currency for permission to change their names. Their requests will be granted. Most of the institutions known as the “German National Bank of ,” want their new name to be the “American National Bank of •”