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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1947
Page
4
Classified page note urges customers to report ad errors at once. Advises longer term advertising commitments and deadlines with 10 30 morning publication time. Provides phone contact and instructs to ask for an ad taker. FOR SALE OR KENT.
Women shopping guide lists cotton and wool outfits with clearances at Leader Department Store and The Link Store. Includes seating locks mittens gloves and various home goods like artificial flowers carpet sweepers aluminum mail boxes rangette and table model radios. Special notices promote hardware and chimney sweep services and January clearance savings at Snively and Snyder.
The snippet lists several rural goods and household items including a dairy electric water heater for fast milking, seeds bulbs gladiolus, a drawer chest with mirror, a small city gas stove, furniture, a Singer sewing machine, an upright piano, a rug and various furnishings. It reads as a mixture of ads and sale notices from a 1947 LAFF-A-DAY page.
Soviet Science News reports that air mass shifts over Europe and Asia between winter and summer cause the Earth to wobble. Shuleikin and colleagues estimate 300 billion tons more air over Europe and Asia in winter than summer, influencing late spring frosts and autumn Indian summers. A vessel detail notes the ship Bloomington Victory arriving in Belem, Brazil in seven days and 22 hours.
Sewing pattern advert offers a versatile fit for crepe and wool fabrics. Includes sizes 24 through 50 with 39-inch fabric yardage and a mail order request to Monroe Evening Times for pattern 199. Users must send size name and address.
Lost items include a 6 foot 1 large ring in the center of the city with a reward for its return to Monroe Sales Co. A Bulova ladies wrist watch with black cloth band lost Tuesday evening, finder to Times office for reward. Horn rim glasses in brown leather lost Friday between Karlen's and Methodist church, finder call or leave at Karlen's bakery for reward. Livestock listings note 20 heifers and 10 Holstein yearlings, 15 fall feeder pigs, Chester White stock hog, a good yearling Holstein bull, stock hogs Spotted Poland China, purebred Guernsey bull, and multiple other bulls and hogs with names and addresses in Monroe, Argyle, and surrounding areas.
Just received shipment of rebuilt V-8 Ford 39 and 41 motors complete with head and pan. Liberal trade in on old motor. Geigel Implement Co. offers tractor propelled garden cultivator and parts for Allis Chalmers Hinman service. Walter Voegell lists tractors and farm machinery with contact. McCormick-Deering rake hayloader, Massey-Harris power binder, Case plow on rubber. Clarence Zuberkirchen and other vendors advertise equipment and telephones for orders.
A historical listing notes a Wards Milking Machine unit with a salalens sve foot pail available, indicating an agricultural equipment sale. The fragment suggests a catalog entry or advertisement detailing milking gear components for farm use.
Classified style listing from The Times shows multiple terse ads. Entries include single and married men sought for dairy farms, Swiss cheese and general farm work near Monticello and Freeport, with contact names such as Willis Foulker Walter Hammerly Emil Dubach Albert Richard and Thomas Schiesser, plus trucker work with Frederick G. Smith Co and paper routes for youths.
Livestock trade shows slow early hogs and uneven later activity with 15 000 head on barrow and gilt futures and 23 000 total in the run. Cattle receipts 17 000 and calves 1 000 with steers and yearlings up 25-50 cents and top at 32.00 while beef cows range 13.00-15.50 and vealers hit 27.00. Sheep bids weak to steady with wooled lambs around 23.65 and ewes above 7.50. Butter prices unsettled at 74.15 for 93 score AA, eggs steady with various U S standards and wholesale duckling and young duck prices listed.
Wall Street traders reported fluctuating exchange activity as the pound slipped toward the 50s range while U.S. dollar levels held firm. Investors monitored economic data and policy signals for direction.
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