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With a Carload of Love…

With a Carload of Love…

Letters from Wallie illustrates a beautiful courtship, romance and marriage with wife Mabel via mail by rail from Wausau to Milwaukee in 1930s Wisconsin before and during the Great Depression.

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Mabel’s sister

Thursday, February 26, 1931

February 26, 1931September 23, 2018 ~ Krista Polansky

Boy! I’m glad that you are actually coming home. I’ll be waiting for you & have a dinner ready. How’s Zat?
I’m really getting very sick of this baching it & nobody can blame me for it in the least.

Walter Carl Polzin - Milwaukee, WI “Wallie”

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Tuesday, February 17, 1931

February 17, 1931September 20, 2018 ~ Krista Polansky

You have been very faithful Dear Heart, and I love you more for it.

Mabel Henrietta Frieda Schrader - Wausau, WI Mabel

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Friday, February 13, 1931

February 13, 1931September 20, 2018 ~ Krista Polansky

I’m so happy Dear, I just received the flowers from you. They’re so pretty and smell so sweet. You’re so wonderful Dear. Now I hope I receive a letter from you too, because they’re so interesting to read.

Mabel Henrietta Frieda Schrader - Wausau, WI Mabel

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Thursday, February 12, 1931

February 12, 1931September 20, 2018 ~ Krista Polansky

Everybody thinks she’s a sweet baby but they can’t think she’s as sweet as we do, can they, Dear?

Mabel Henrietta Frieda Schrader - Wausau, WI Mabel

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Wednesday, February 11, 1931

February 11, 1931September 22, 2018 ~ Krista Polansky

Sure thing [those girls] have been terribly nosey. But remember dearest they didn’t pass the last day of their life either yet. So how as they know how they’ll fare with their score…

Walter Carl Polzin - Milwaukee, WI “Wallie”

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Tuesday, February 10, 1931

February 10, 1931September 20, 2018 ~ Krista Polansky

She’s getting along just fine, and I feel the same way, so don’t worry about us, Sweetheart. Be sure to take good care of yourself.

Mabel Henrietta Frieda Schrader - Wausau, WI Mabel

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Monday, February 9, 1931

February 9, 1931September 20, 2018 ~ Krista Polansky

I just love to watch her — she’s so sweet, Wallie. She makes the funniest little noises while sleeping, and stretches her little arms so cute. She delights in cuddling up real close to me. We’ll both love her so much, Sweetheart.

Mabel Henrietta Frieda Schrader - Wausau, WI Mabel

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Tuesday, February 3, 1931

February 3, 1931September 20, 2018 ~ Krista Polansky

Please believe me dear I miss you more than I would miss my right arm. Won’t you please hurry and come back to me? I wish everything would be over with so we could be side by each again. Then our little nest would be complete again.

Walter Carl Polzin - Milwaukee, WI “Wallie”

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Monday, February 2, 1931

February 2, 1931September 20, 2018 ~ Krista Polansky

…the time from now until then will go so fast — it will be here before you realize it.

Mabel Henrietta Frieda Schrader - Wausau, WI Mabel

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Sunday, February 1, 1931

February 1, 1931September 20, 2018 ~ Krista Polansky

I hope nobody gets the wrong impression because we both love each other more than ever, don’t we Sweetheart?

Mabel Henrietta Frieda Schrader - Wausau, WI Mabel

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Saturday, January 31, 1931

January 31, 1931September 22, 2018 ~ Krista Polansky

Let the money matters take care of themselves… it’s better to pay what they ask & not work too hard than working your head off & paying for the “privilege” besides…

Walter Carl Polzin - Milwaukee, WI “Wallie”

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Tuesday, January 27, 1931

January 27, 1931September 20, 2018 ~ Krista Polansky

[Dad’s] chest hurts him terribly so tonight I’m going to see that it’s greased with lard & turpentine — your remedy.

Mabel Henrietta Frieda Schrader - Wausau, WI Mabel

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Monday, January 26, 1931

January 26, 1931September 20, 2018 ~ Krista Polansky

I love you so much Wallie, I didn’t realize how much until now. Take good care of yourself — I will too.

Mabel Henrietta Frieda Schrader - Wausau, WI Mabel

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Friday, January 16, 1931

January 16, 1931September 22, 2018 ~ Krista Polansky

I hope Dr. Reist will keep it out of the paper. “Eight months” babies never live, do they? But “seven months” do, I’ve heard. Whatever it is, we’ll be satisfied — other people don’t count anyway.

"Wallie & Mabel" Mabel & Wallie

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Saturday, August 16, 1930

Wausau Daily Record-Herald, Sat 16 Aug 1930 (Headlines)
August 16, 1930September 19, 2018 ~ Krista Polansky

Wedding

Schrader-Polzin Wedding - Walter & Mabel (Schrader) Polzin - August 16, 1930 - St. Paul's Evangelical Church - Wausau, WI

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“Out West” - "The wedding trip will include an automobile trip through Yellowstone Park, to Salt Lake City and points in California..."

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Friday, April 19, 1929

April 19, 1929September 20, 2018 ~ Krista Polansky

I’m sending this letter by Special Delivery so you’ll have it as a substitute for my being with you. I’m sending 1000 kisses along as proxies.

Walter Carl Polzin - Milwaukee, WI “Wallie”

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Wednesday, March 27, 1929

March 27, 1929September 20, 2018 ~ Krista Polansky

You see, my darling I must look nice & neat when I’m with you. Because you look so neat & faultless always and my darling I feel so proud about your appearance always. You are a queen.

Walter Carl Polzin - Milwaukee, WI “Wallie”

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Friday, March 15, 1929

March 15, 1929September 20, 2018 ~ Krista Polansky

…I have your picture resting on my dresser & you’re looking right straight at me. How I do love to just look into your eyes. And your lips, my dear heart are so sweet a kiss upon your lips means “the more you get the more you want” & I’ll never get too many.

Walter Carl Polzin - Milwaukee, WI “Wallie”

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Walter Carl Polzin - Milwaukee, WI
Walter Carl Polzin – Milwaukee, WI

Walter Carl Polzin (1901-1983) was born and raised as the youngest of three sons born to German immigrants Otto F. W. and Albertina (Fischer) Polzin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. After a brief stint with Milwaukee Road, he attended the Walton School of Commerce in Chicago and worked as a field auditor in public accounting involving a considerable amount of travel for the firm Mollerus & Heuel throughout the state of Wisconsin. He would later work locally for the next 38 years as a cost accountant for Milwaukee Stamping Co. after marrying the love of his life and the birth of their only child, a daughter, Nancy Leigh Dawn.

On the Victrola

“Snap-Crackle-Pop!” - [Music] Explore the soundtrack of life via the collection of 78s on the Victrola.

Snapshots

"Wallie & Mabel" Mabel & Wallie - Walter "Wallie" & Mabel (Schrader) Polzin through the years

In Her Own Words: A Memoir

“The Story of My Life as I Remember It” - The first home I remember was at 218 North 4th Avenue in the city of Wausau. When I was a baby my parents had lived in an upper flat on North 3rd Avenue but I do not remember living there. My father delivered groceries with horse and wagon for a grocery store called “Cash Trading … Continue reading “The Story of My Life as I Remember It”

Consignment of first class dead letter mail. Library of Congress: Benj. Morse, 1925.
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