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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1948
Page
4
Monroe Evening Times lists fall items from multiple stores. Van Raalte gloves, nylon sweaters, plaid skirts, slips, bras and panties. The Dixie Frock Shop and The Link Store offer coats dresses slips and kids wear. Toys arriving weekly warn of Christmas savings. Carload washer sale and various home goods highlighted.
A dense classified page lists used Chevrolet trucks, 1940 and 1946 Chevrolet two-doors, Jeeps, and various farm tools from dealers like Willys-Overland in Brodhead and Montgomery Ward's Farm Store. Names include Darryl T. Camron, Orville Jacobs, John Maske, Gale, and Scheider Brothers. items feature binders, corn planters, hay choppers, silo fillers, balers, and power binders with contact routes in Monroe, New Glarus, Dubuque, and Red Oak.
Agitator type milk coolers cool six cans of milk from 90 degrees to 50 degrees in less than an hour. Holds water at 40 degrees. Features drop in agitator circulator. Complete with 1/3 hp unit.
Items include a green enamel four burner range in good condition, a modern bed with complete Simplex ironer and gas heater, a Florence oil heater and a 6 cubic foot Electrolux refrigerator with 3 drawer chest, plus a mahogany cellaret cabinet and new bed lamps. Also farm listings: 140 acre Browntown area, 220 acre dairy farm Lafayette County near state highway. Inquiries to The Times offices and box addresses.
Wanted to rent city property for a family of three by Sept 1. Unfurnished house wanted at once. High school girl seeks work for room and board. Apartment wanted for a couple with small child. Phone numbers listed for contact.
Classified notices seek male workers for general labor and clerical tasks at Kundert Elmer Royal Blue and Gateway City Transfer. Farm labor in fall, cellar work at Walter’s Dairy, mink farm work in Mount Pocono, and an experienced Swiss cheesemaker in Wisconsin offered with board or partnership prospects. Box 38 time advertisement asks applicants to respond by mail.
Help wanted items include a female waitress at Corner Cafe, a woman for housework on a farm, a lab assistant at Kraft Foods, an elderly woman for housework, and a caregiver for two children. Listings provide box numbers or phone contacts in Delavan Wisconsin area.
Classified items include a part time sales job for a 33 year old girl in Browntown with $50 guaranteed and earnings up to $500 weekly, a full time sales opener in Omaha with car required, farm loan offers in Monroe, and nursing school placement in Chicago. Legal notices from Green County Wisconsin involve probate actions for J Park Roderick and Louis Neff with hearings in Monroe, notices to creditors, and deadlines in 1948. Additional historical eclipse note mentions Thai superstition as drums and noise to scare away a demon swallowing the sun.
Salable hogs the day total 6 000 with hog prices largely steady to weak and top at 30 75. Cattle and calves show a week long decline, vealers steady to 50 cents lower, steer and heifer prices mixed with some demand absent. Produce section notes butter firmer and eggs steady while live poultry remains slow. Wall Street describes modest gains across many stocks in light volume with gains seen in U S Steel and several major issues.
Pattern 9305 features a classic line with two bright bow accents and easy sewing steps. Complete illustrated chart covers sizes 12 through 20, with size 16 requiring 5 yards of 89 inch fabric. Send 25 cents to Monroe Evening Time Pattern Dept. at 232 West 18th St New York 11 NY with name address zone size and style number.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports wholesale prices for the week ended Aug 21 rose to 169.2 percent of the 1926 average, tying the postwar peak set Aug 7 after a dip the week of Aug 14. Farm products rose 0.3 percent as grains and some livestock gained.
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