From: Tarutino, Bessarabia.
Although, we are not bona fide subscribers to the Staats-Anzeiger, we have the opportunity to study the publication with great diligence.
Our father visited us in Tarutino on February 12 and this was a pleasure. He forwarded the greetings from Issue #28 of this paper, a greeting from our sister Amalia, the wife of Ignatz Gross in Morton County, North Dakota. We are happy to see them among the readers of this paper as well.
We have received the letters sent by your sister and have written to her and the parents. I, your sister Antonia, thank you very much for the promise of a ticket to visit America. Be informed that Korbinian, your brother, is almost finished with his duty as a soldier. We are looking forward to hearing from you in the newspaper.
Greetings to you as well sister Eugenia and husband Eduard Richter. Greetings also to all readers of this publication!
Korbinian, Antonia
and Bertha Dirk
From: Petrofka, Bessarabia
21 February 1913
I want to let the editorship of the Staats-Anzeiger know that once again I am receiving the paper regularly. Whoever was the culprit that took several issues of the paper on the way to me is a puzzle. In the beginning, this condition was nearly unbearable, but since I received the paper again regularly a few weeks later, it was clear to me that the fault was not that of the Staats-Anzeiger and with that the inconvenience was forgotten. (*Editor: The paper leaves here regularly and on time like clockwork and therefore should be arriving there with the same precision.) The Staats-Anzeiger is certainly exciting for every German reader because it brings so much news from all over the world. But just because of that no one has the right to take the paper that doesn’t belong to him. It would be better for such person, if he is not able to buy the paper for himself, to ask the reader to let him read it. If he steals an issue here and there, he won’t be able to read the connecting correspondences and the owner of the paper can’t do it either and is badly harmed.
Today, 21 February, we celebrate the 300-year jubilee of the imperial house of Romanow here in Russia, and everyone alive is calling out the congratulatory wishes, “Long live the imperial house of Romanow!” How this feast is celebrated in other villages will be found out later.
The weather from 10 February to 17 February was spring like. After that winter set in again for 3 days. We had temperatures around 10 degrees and still more frosts. Beginning on 20 February, it was once again milder and nice.
I am greeting my children in Morton County, North Dakota and I would be very happy to hear from them more often as well as from many other friends. Furthermore, I am sending greetings to my old colleague Anton Jochim and wife and also to Mr. Jakob Sommerfeld.
Respectfully,
Romuald Dirk
From: Wade, North Dakota
21 March 1913
I always receive the newspaper on time. I read it with great interest. I have not received the wall maps, however. I am sure they were sent like the paper is sent. Just wanted to let you know that they have not arrived. (*Publisher: I am sure that they have come by now, if not, let us know and we will investigate further.)
I was happy to see correspondence from Peter Leintz of Krasna, South Russia in Issue #33 and to find out that he is still alive and well. I am asking him to please continue writing, as it is always nice to hear from the outside.
Greetings to Peter Leintz and niece M. Kuss, as well as the publisher and all the readers of this publication.
Magnus Dirk