Mandan—Henry Handtmann, son of Johann Handtmann, who was recently relieved of his position as deputy sheriff for writing an unpatriotic letter to a German paper, applied for examination and entrance in I company of the Second regiment. The elder Handtmann insists that the article was misinterpreted.

Grand Forks Herald, 7/31/1917

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Henry Handtmann, 19 years old, son of John Handtmann of Mandan, who recently was relieved of his position as deputy sheriff because of an article he wrote of an un-American trend, for The Nord Dakota Herald, a German newspaper at Dickinson, is showing his father the way to be patriotic. The young man enlisted on Company I of the Second Regiment of North Dakota.

Ward County Independent, 8/16/1917