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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1948
Page
4
A collage of car sales notes from Monroe and Darlington Wisconsin listings. Cars range from 1930s to 1940s models with prices, contact numbers, and seller names including Marty Chevrolet and Darlington Motor Sales. Also included are tireless reminders of daily buy low sell high through Evening Times Want Ads.
24 FIELD CHOPPER Massey Harris with attachments in A 1 condition 1000 John Krattiger route 5 Monroe phone 1512 Clarno TRUCK 1930 Buick pickup good condition low mileage recently overhauled best offer takes it See Marion Kennedy at Bill Rees garage Monroe Cars ee
In 1947 a large cabinet safe described as fire proof is listed with an address to post office box 50 Monticello. The notice mentions WARD'S FARM STORE and references several classic car models including Commander Studebaker 1947 and 1941 Buick Special along with 1941 1938 1935 Chevrolet coaches.
Classified notice seeking immediate housing for multiple parties. A un furnished house for a couple with a small child, a veteran and wife, and a couple with a 4 year old boy are requested. Phone numbers and names listed for contact.
Help wanted notices seek 50 men or boys over 16 for pin spotting starting Sept 1 at a recreation club. A man to sell appliances with a car. salary plus commission at Gamble Store. A produce man with steady pay and vacation. inquire at National Tea Store Monroe. A married man needed for a modern dairy farm with housing. A radio operator for Green County with pension. apply by 7 pm Aug 12 at Highway Police office Monroe.
Help wanted notices include male body man positions at Badger Motors in Monroe with salary or commission options and travel ready training roles for two young managers. Also waitress and housework positions at The Grill and Banjo Pete's Monroe Hotel, plus a factory material entry and a Milton College graduate seeking accounting work in Monroe.
Business opportunity offering an excellent locker and coal operation in a town of 2,500 near Madison. Can be sold as a package or separately. Contact George Walker in Platteville for details.
USDA markets report active hogs up to 75 cents higher with loads around 400 pounds at 24.25 and sows 26.75 to 27.50 under 300 pounds. Cattle and calves show steady to mixed tendencies with top beef slaughter at 41.25 for large steers, dry-fed cows 19.00 to 22.50, and vealers to 31.00. Poultry and eggs move lightly with slight price shifts and steady receipts.
Trading on Wall Street continued to weaken with many leading issues down fractions to over a point. Nickel Plate stock fell about four points and Skelly Oil dropped more than five as turnover surged to a two week high amid renewed selling and fading early resistance.
The University of Pennsylvania selects Owen J. Roberts as dean of its law school, while Pennsylvania announces his appointment as associate justice of the U S Supreme Court. Roberts, 73, will take the Penn post on September 1 after Earl G Harrison resigns.
Take Your Choice Day unfolds at the Wisconsin centennial celebration in Milwaukee with events ranging from big car races on the fair grounds to Case farm equipment pageants. Rex Mays won the speedway prizes while 18-year-old George Weidman Jr. collected blue ribbons in the junior Holstein show and eyed next year’s Chicago international. Carol Mueller’s misrouted day set a record for time in the lost and found booth as Rose Marie O'Brien won hog raising honors with O'Brien's Fancy Boy.
Two polio deaths were reported in Wisconsin as the Milwaukee health commissioner urged more nurses for South View isolation hospital. The disease has limited a new floor opening while daily polio admissions rise, with eight cases in the city and multiple deaths across Oshkosh and Fond du Lac areas.
A fashion pattern description for pattern 9079 features a gay full skirted jumper and a blouse with swank cuffs suited for class and weekends. Includes easy to follow illustrated sew chart and sizing Junior Miss 11 13 15 17 with yardage listed for size 13. Send 25 cents to Monroe Evening Times Pattern Dept in New York for purchase.
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