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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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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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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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Monday, March 25, 1929

March 25, 1929September 20, 2018 ~ Krista Polansky

…I glanced down on my vest and what do you suppose I discovered? I bet your thinking of a “gravy spot.” No my darling, if you thought that you are far off the track – I found one of your hair – that right away brought me memories of our wonderful thrilling “hour & ½ wake.”

Walter Carl Polzin - Milwaukee, WI “Wallie”

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Thursday, March 21, 1929

March 21, 1929September 20, 2018 ~ Krista Polansky

…we both love each other more dearly than ever before that’s the effect trouble should have on love. After every spout of trouble love again appears on top & stronger than before.

Walter Carl Polzin - Milwaukee, WI “Wallie”

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Thursday, February 7, 1929

February 7, 1929September 20, 2018 ~ Krista Polansky

So I had a few memories on the train yesterday. Oh yes – on the train you know what I did? I read & re-read your letter about 20 times. The letter you wrote to me Sunday. Yes honey I’ll forgive you. I “like?” you – did you say like? – I told you once before, I more than merely like you.

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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