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Wisconsin News Roundup Highlights War Candidacy and Local Incidents
Assemblyman Homer A. Stone seeks reelection and criticizes La Follette’s wartime stance. A 15-year-old boy in Marinette sustains a fatal gunshot wound while handling a suspected unloaded revolver. Sergeant Ernest Pearson is reported dead in France, and Private Leslie Cunningham is identified as a prisoner in Germany. The piece covers local crime, Red Cross contributions, milk price controls, rail fare petitions, church jubilees, UW student credits, jailbreak capture, and a fatal farm incident near Waukesha.
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Homer A. Stone
Dane County
la Follatta
John Simon
Marinette
John Pearson
Waiaua
Ernest Pearson
France
Pearson
River Falla Normal School
South Madison
H. Tenney
Enforcement Division
Wisconsin
Madison
Vilas H. Whaley
Stacine County
Congress
Talbot Stewart
Kenosha
Feld
Kenosha Patriots’ Fund
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Judes EB. B. Belden
Racine
Hag
Camp Custer
Custer
Grant
Alvin B. Jones
Ostkosh
Oakes Candy Co
Wisconsin Food Administration
Eastern Wisconsin Electric Company
Wisconsin Railroad Commission
Fond du Lac
North Pont du Lac
Shévoygan
Kobler
Sheboygan Walls
M. T. Anderagg
SS. Peter and Paul's Church
Green Bay
Andereeg
University of Wisconsin
Reserve Officers
Fort Sheridan
William Adams
Ashland County
Rhinelaunder
Ashland
Adams
Wall River
da Peters
Fremont
Wallupoos County
Msyo
A. Hi. Melville
Tes
Farmers’ State Bank of Sullivan
Sullivan Condensed Milk Company
C. F. Lamb
B. J. Edgevier
Oconomowock
William Hille
Waukesha
Hille
Hulds
Ernest Lentz
Armhaund
Cyrus Philipp
Gov
EB. L. Phillpp
Navy
Great Lakes