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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1952
Page
4
A bustling classified page showcases fall fashion items from Lee's Nylon Heather Sweaters to Cameo Shirback Drapery and four-cubic-foot upright freezers. Also listed are home goods, blinds, window treatments, and upholstery services, plus a variety of autos, poultry, and livestock offerings from Monroe area dealers and farms.
Local classifieds list four wheel shredder, pumps, water systems, and full line implements from Richardson Electric and Disch Implement. Also feature Milcord baler twine, New Holland balers, and Harvester home freezers, with multiple Monroe and Juda contacts and phone numbers.
Box 43 in care of The Times advertises Bernard Cullen farm 192% acres two miles east of Darlington on S highway 81. Contact F. P. Connelly or Frank Sauer. Also listed: Commercial building about 3 000 square feet with two wash rooms two offices boiler room suitable for manufacture warehouse or sales depot. Charles W. Price Realtor 1236 Court Street Photo 3800 Janesville Wis. Site.
Help wanted notice seeks a female assistant for general housework at 1915 7th street. Includes contact details and a note about no pay during sickness or layoff due to an accident. Mentions Thorp Auto Loans and Thorp Finance Corp contact options with 1001% 16th avenue and phone numbers 1605 Monroe and 1999.
Wanted: a woman to live with an elderly woman and perform housework in town. Call 71 or write Box South Wayne. Ask for 2 and Fekees.
Franklin Dence at Collegege won first prize, $600, for a satirical oil titled We Have Seen Every ing. Fred Berman, Layton School of Art instructor, earned second prize $400 for Facade No 1. Edmund Lewandowski, Milwaukeean former, now at Florida State University, took third $200 for Abstract Scientific Research.
The Wisconsin Division of the American Automobile Association advised increasing state traffic patrolmen from 70 to 140 over two years, to be used for highway patrol work only. It also deferred radar adoption pending study, urged clear radar signs, and did not oppose a limited gasoline tax hike if funds target the 500 miles of interstate defense highway in Wisconsin.
Hog salable volumes and price ranges across weights from 150 to over 350 pounds, with soy mixed cattle figures. Cattle including steers yearlings heifers and cows shown with price bands and load weights. butter and eggs show firm trends with receipt tallies.
Wisconsin ranked third among states in farm machinery production in 1951 with shipments valued at 299 million dollars. Illinois led with 658 million and Iowa followed with 334 million, according to the Bureau of the Census.
A Boston police car locating a street cave-in in West Roxbury Sunday dropped into the hole. A crane hoisted the cruiser out of the crater, with no injuries reported.
The Wisconsin Board of Regents approved a policy barring new student organizations with discriminatory charter provisions and allowing current groups to operate only if they remove such provisions by July 1, 1960. A public education campaign on the policy was approved, with grants totaling $136,282 and gifts of $30,996 from NIH and the Inter-university Labor Education Committee.
South Hill Virginia reports Melvin E. Crutchfield age 17 swerved his jeep to run over a snake on a highway. The jeep overturned in the attempt, and Crutchfield was killed though the snake was not struck.
Fort Hood's Sgt. Jack Laxson won his third straight Fourth Army golf championship at Fort Sill Oklahoma, downing Cpl. Bill Goessel 4 and 2. Goessel led earlier in the morning round before fading, while representing the Army-Navy Hospital in Hot Springs Arkansas.
The Milwaukee Hawks of the National Basketball Association placed Nate De Long on waivers. De Long, a former River Falls State College star, played with the Hawks in the latter half of the 1951 52 season.
Marian Martin pattern R9395 offers a two-piece topper that can be worn as a suit jacket or as a coat over dresses. Fabric needs 2% yards of 54 inch wool per size 16, with sleeves that convert to cuffs. Includes illustrated sew chart and order details for The Times Pattern Dept.
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