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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1916
Page
4
The article extols Marshfield as a thriving trade center with many stores along North and South Central Avenues offering food, apparel, furniture, books, music, and more. It emphasizes plentiful stock, reasonable prices, and the city’s cultured, refined shopping experience, inviting visitors to view its model retail establishments.
Tiffault Ramps Mercantile Co. operates from 218215 South Central Avenue in the city’s business district. The two story building houses a large stock of groceries, fruits, vegetables, clothing, shoes, furnishings, and home goods on the main and second floors with a basement stocked in crockery and glassware. The firm, incorporated in 1897, lists J L Tiffault as president and W H Warns as secretary treasurer.
Hasselbalch Mack Company at 221 South Central Avenue offers a full line of men and boys clothing, hosiery, underwear, and furnishings. Agents for Hart Schaffner Marx Clothcraft and Nettleton shoes, the store promotes durable, well fitting attire in dustproof cabinets. Founders Hasselbalch and Mack lead the venture with L D Klook ski as president and a growing local business in 1915.
Rembs and Sturm, operating at 01-303 South Central Avenue, have served the city for 22 years with furniture, rugs, mattresses, and housewares on a cash and easy-payment plan. The two-floor store includes a warehouselike annex, a complete undertaking parlor on the second floor, embalming room, and soon a morgue. Louis Rembs and Jacob Sturm run the firm. Sturm is an experienced licensed embalmer and undertaker.
A local shoe store at 215 South Central Avenue operated by L. C. Krueger, with eleven years in business, touts guaranteed footwear and the slogan If the tongues of your shoes could talk Buy your next pair here. The firm runs a repair shop and operates several branches across the state. Krueger, age 26, is credited with much of the success.
The Times outlines sending copies of the current issue to absent friends and to residents of the city via a formal request form. Readers are invited to request delivery, with details guiding eligibility and submission.
The Sexton brothers operated the Quality Drug Store at 225 South Central Avenue for thirty years. Now Mrs W A Sexton runs it with John Demgen as manager, billing itself as Sexton s Prescription Store with a wide range of drugs and sundries and a strong reputation for accuracy and service.
Palace Meat Co owners Mussis Albert and William Wennol run Star market at 722 South Central Avenue and Palace market at 122 South Central Avenue. Started a year ago, they offer fresh meat, sausages, bacon, and own stock. They operate a wholesale delivery line car, focus on sanitation, and aim to satisfy families with prompt service.
The Booth Campbell Retail Lumber Co formed after purchasing Roddis Lumber & Veneer. It will operate temporarily in the old yards near the Vencer Factory until a new building at Central Ave and North Depot St is ready. G. D. Booth and A. J. Campbell lead the venture offering timber, windows, doors, lath, flooring, millwork, roofing and more.
The Uthmeier Hintz Co occupies 104 107 North Central Line in a 44 by 84 foot double store. Established twenty eight years and incorporated in 2914 the firm is a leading grocer millinery and dry goods house with agents for Agier's Collegian clothing. They operate two large warehouses near the Sea Line railroad and ship grain seeds wool and potatoes seasonally. President William Uthmeier and vice president Telward Hintz with Fe Hintz as secretary treasurer are among Marshfield’s progressive business leaders, noted in The Times Greater Marshfield Industrial Edition.
Theodore D Hefko showcases refined floral design at his creon house 603 West Sth Street with cut powers wedding decorations funeral designs and party arrangements. He operates five greenhouses totaling 12000 square feet of glass and has run his business in the city for four years and owns his own grounds and buildings.
The William Noll Hardware Company at 109 111 South Central Avenue offers a vast stock of hardware, tinware, stoves, farm machinery, paints, oils, guns, and auto supplies. They are Dodge auto agents, West Bend wagon distributors, and sheet metal specialists owning the building and a large warehouse. W. W. Noll is president and J A Nord secretary treasurer, building a trusted, square-deal reputation for farmers and customers.
Charles J. Eckes runs a key hardware firm at 408 South Central Avenue. The shop offers hardware, tools, automobile supplies, guns and accessories, plus varnish and brushes. Established in 1907 by John Eckes, it passed to his son six years ago and thrives in Marghfield.
The Rare Stores Company operates a Mast Second Street Mast South Central Ave location as part of a fourteen store chain with Milwaukee headquarters. The store, a double 45 by 100 foot space, opened four and a half years ago and features ten cent goods once priced at fifty cents. Up to twenty five salespeople work there under local manager M. E. Pfeifer.
Normington Brothers Laundry claims top status with a new two story brick addition at 600 South Central Avenue. The firm operates laundries, dry cleaning, pressing, and dyeing with auto delivery, employing twenty five hands and offering family washing at five cents a pound. F A Normington serves as manager. Ga L Normington is a director. Hy Normington elected alderman and serves as secretary treasurer of the Wisconsin Laundrymen’s Association.
C J Lundgren as a long established Marshfield merchant tailor offers high grade menswear with in house measuring fitting and design. His stock includes foreign and domestic goods and he operates a modern showroom opposite the post office. He personally oversees cutting and tailoring with honest workmanship and reasonable charges.
A. E. Kump has served city housewives for seven and a half years at 219 South Central Avenue. His store offers fancy and staple groceries, canned goods, fruits, vegetables, confectionery, garden seeds, and more. Despite a modest size, it wins customers with service and variety, earning him a place among popular local merchants.
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