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 11 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1949
Page
4
A Monroe classified section lists women’s product ads and a pharmacy vitamin offer. The Richardson Electric Co promotes a stock item price of 1.15 dollars and Kempfert’s Pharmacy advertises a vitality vitamin announcement.
Zany humor meets a field of used car listings and farm equipment notes. Crandall's Texaco Service in Crandall offers 1946 Ford and 1946 Nash sedans plus a 1939 Ford sedan. Marty Chevrolet Sales in Monroe lists 1948 Pontiac wagon and 1947 Chevrolet business coupe. Salters Sales and Service in Brodhead features a Willys Overland dealer. Grain and equipment ad notes eight acres white oak timber and 500 bushels of ear corn with contact Freeman Larson in Gratiot.
Listings show Willys Overland trucks including 4 wheel drive and Jeeps from Green County Auto Co and WLAD 501 Monroe. numerous autos from 1930s to 1940s. GMC trucks. hay equipment. tractors from McCormick Deering. manure spreaders. hay mowers. oil and filters. farm implements. two single men seeking dairy and Swiss cheese factory work. married man sought for beef farm. local help wanted note.
Mrs O D Curtis hosts guests including Misses Fannie and Frieda Benkert and Mrs Rosa Roth in Monticello. Mrs J W Barlow entertains a Wednesday contract bridge group with three tables. Madison visitors included Mr and Mrs William Elliott. Elmer visitants from Monroe called on the Elmers. Norma Disch and Shirley Schenk from Albany spent time with Mrs Casper Ryner. Rolland Zimmerman and Virginia Elmer visited the Dettwilers in Monroe. A luncheon dish features tomato aspic ring with mixed vegetables and watercress accents.
Livestock prices in Chicago show salable hogs 300 head and cattle 300 head amid price pressure. top hogs around 21.75, beef steer costs lowest since May 10, 1947, with steers and heifers down 1.00-2.00 and cows 50 to 1.00 lower. In New York stock trading, the market rose slightly with fractional gains. turnover 250,000 shares, notable gains for U S Steel Youngstown Sheet and Tube and others, bonds moved narrowly.
The Maynard Schutzes, once two and a half miles west of Albany, held a dispersal sale at Rock City, NL and plan to move to Rockford after a vacation to California and Washington.
Coast guard air-sea rescue headquarters announced that no trace of the Tudor type plane with 20 aboard was found after a search spanning the ocean. The missing aircraft disappeared Monday on a Bermuda to Kingston Jamaica leg, following a London to Kingston route, last heard an hour after takeoff at 18 000 feet.
A Utah dairy plant at Amalga owned by Cache Valley Dairy set a new world Swiss cheese production record by producing 100 wheels in one day on Sunday January 16. Each wheel weighs 220 pounds, totaling 250000 pounds of milk from county farms.
A crash of the citys new rotor mail shuttle killed Harry S. Slemmons 27 of Inglewood. He died when the rotor plane from the terminal annex post office skimmed Macy street and plunged into traffic after takeoff.
Mrs F N Miller announces Juda traveling with her son Juda Miller Jr and Mrs Wilmer Coates left Tuesday for Florida to spend several weeks vacationing in the Sunshine State away from home.
Marian Martin pattern 9491 offers a built up top skirt that can be a sundress or date dress. Sizes 12 through 20 with size 16 option includes sundress and jacket. Requires 4% yards of 39 inch fabric. Complete illustrated guide with steps. Send 25 cents to Monroe Evening Times Pattern Dept New York.
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.