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...after a two-year burglary rap, broke a gas station window, stole nothing but called police and asked to be arrested for burglary, told the judge, who noted the penalty was one to ten years, "I'll take ten," got 2½ arrived at the state prison in Waupun in time for supper...
Like many an old-school newspaperman, George W. Greene, publisher of the Waupun (Wis.) Leader-News, suffered from a familiar occupational disease. His own peculiar symptom was a devotion to what he calls New England boiled dinners (bourbon & water) for breakfast. Now he wanted his 3,127 readers to know that he was a changed man. Wrote he: "This is probably the strangest editorial you ever read. It is the strangest one I ever expect to write...
Died. John Flammang Schrank, 67, Bavarian-born ex-barkeep who shot and wounded Theodore" Roosevelt in Milwaukee in 1912; of bronchial pneumonia; in the Waupun, Wis. hospital where he spent 29 of his 31 mailless, visitorless years in state custody, after being judged a paranoiac. Schrank regarded Teddy's 1912 Bull Moosing as a bid for a third term, decided to shoot him. Schrank's single shot was parried by manuscripts and a spectacle case in T.R.'s pockets. Despite his wound, Teddy made a speech that night, a fortnight later again felt perfectly bully...
Publisher George W. Greene (TIME, Dec. 21) of the weekly Waupun (Wis.) Leader-News last week advertised in the Publishers' Auxiliary...
...Waupun, Wis. On the walls of Publisher George W. Greene's office at the Waupun Leader-News are 15 ribbons and plaques given him for topnotch editorial writing, newspaper promotion, civic enterprise. The people of Waupun, a center of the dairy industry (pop. 5,768, including the State prison's 1,600-odd prisoners) are proud of their newspaper, for it ranks with the best U.S. weeklies...