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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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Saturday, February 14, 1931

February 14, 1931September 20, 2018 ~ Krista Polansky

I’m so glad that those flowers reached you in time for the “big day” – Valentine. Yes sir! the sweetest valentine in the world, and you’re it, dearest.

Walter Carl Polzin - Milwaukee, WI “Wallie”

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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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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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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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Tuesday, April 23, 1929

April 23, 1929September 20, 2018 ~ Krista Polansky

I’m a fine one I tell you in a letter that I was returning the snapshot picture then I forget all about it. If I happen to think about or rather if my memory will stretch so far till I finish this letter then I’ll enclose them. Don’t, please, my little sweetheart be angry at me for what I did to one of them, will you?

Walter Carl Polzin - Milwaukee, WI “Wallie”

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Tuesday, April 16, 1929

April 16, 1929September 20, 2018 ~ Krista Polansky

I wish I could get near a radio this afternoon so I can pass the time listening to a ball game.

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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Thursday, March 7, 1929

March 7, 1929September 20, 2018 ~ Krista Polansky

…you’ll soon be compelled to wear “specs” from reading my “rakewalk” rooster style of penmanship. I admit my darling, I once upon the time was a pretty fair penman. But that is “vorbei ist der May.”

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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