This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 17 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1948
Page
4
An advertising snippet from Becker's Leader Store promoting fall items. It lists 100% wool coats sold at The Link Store and mentions Russell styles and zip lined coats with prices from 39.95 upward. The ad ends with a humorous line.
For sale list of 23 used cars and trucks from Marty Chevrolet and other dealers. Includes WLAD 1132 listings, 2 ton trucks, a 1941 GMC, 1947 Pontiac sedanette, Plymouth, Chevrolet, Ford, tractors, and farm machinery. Contacts: Evansville Wis, Mt Horeb Wis, New Glarus Wis, Browntown Wis, plus seeds and farm supplies from local stores.
A married man seeks steady farm work close to a school. Write box 22 in care of The Times. Call in person Mrs. P. A. Keefer Monroe Hotel.
Buy direct from owner a tavern dance hall and service station in Tiffany Wisconsin. Includes buildings fixtures and large stock. Located 8 miles northeast of Beloit in Tiffany. Selling due to other interests. priced right.
Wisconsin Green County Court hears final account of Thomas Blum administrator for Marie R Blum deceased of Washington township. The hearing seeks inheritance tax determination and residue distribution to legal heirs at Monroe courthouse on September 7 1948.
Business opportunity listing for a fully equipped restaurant in a good brick building with a second floor apartment. Heat supplied by hot water circulated with electric pump and stoker. Asking price is $17,000. Shown by appointment only. Neill W. Fox, Realtor, Madison Wisconsin. Badger 63.
Market notes show salable hogs 5 500 to 6 500 head and cattle 12 000 head with calves 700. Hogs mostly steady to slightly lower. weights 200 270 lb 30.00 30.50 per cwt. 425 475 lb hogs 25.00 25.50. Cattle trends mixed with steers steady to 50 cents lower, heifers up to 25 cents higher. vealers 27.00 30.00. Poultry steady. fowl 32 41 per lb. butter weak. eggs steady to firm with various grade prices.
Early down ward tendencies in New York markets gained momentum with oil showing weakness and spreading. Losses ranged from fractions to over two points as turnover stayed light and about 550000 shares traded. Leading decliners included Standard Oil of California Atlantic Refining Skelly Oil and U S Steel while American Telephone J C Penney and Philip Morris steadied briefly.
Cincinnati police arrested three children under 12 for attempting to crack a safe in a car company office. Motorcycle Patrolman Albert Thiele said he found an 11 year old girl, an eight year old boy, and a four year old girl hammering the safe, after they had broken a window to enter the office and damaged two combination knobs. They were turned over to juvenile court.
New Holstein Wisconsin state champion defeated Knoxville Tennessee Fulton 8-0 in a third round game of the national semi pro baseball tournament. Ray Janikowski hurled a three hit shutout as New Holstein rolled to victory.
Ben Hogan won the Denver Open with a 270 score at Wellshire Municipal for a $2,150 first prize. He then pursued the Salt Lake City Open, while a poor PR week left Denver fans disappointed as he skipped prize presentation and refused interviews.
Ann Arbor Mich Bennie Oosterbaan called 64 players to report for football practice at the University of Michigan on September 1. The roster includes 13 lettermen from last year’s Rose Bowl champion team plus two other veterans.
The Golds defeated the Blues 17 to 0 in Green Bay in the first intrasquad scrimmage of the year. A 12 yard pass from Jack Jacobs to Jack Mead for the early score and a fourth quarter fumble return by Bob Forte set the pace, with Jacobs adding a 23 yard field goal late.
Chicago Cardinals routed by 28 points at night as Green Bay rookie center Jay Rhodemyre of Kentucky earns MVP honors. He edges Navy’s Dick Scott by about a two to one margin among roughly 500 sportswriters covering the game.
Oshkosh Wisconsin outscored Sioux Falls South Dakota 4-3 in the first round of the American Legion regional junior baseball tournament. Austin Minnesota edged Fargo North Dakota 12-11 in another close game.
A. J. Hank Barrett resigns as football coach at Madison East High School to become assistant principal. Herbert Miller, Barrett’s longtime assistant, is promoted to head coach.
Readers are invited to order pattern 9172 for one piece slip with a large hem ruffle and small top riffle. The pattern offers a perfect fit and easy use with a full illustrated sew chart and sizes 12 through 20 and 40. size 16 requires 255 yards of 39 inch fabric. Send 25 cents to Monroe Evening Times Pattern Dept. in New York for this pattern with name address zone size and style number.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.