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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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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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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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Wednesday, January 28, 1931

January 28, 1931September 20, 2018 ~ Krista Polansky

You ask me how I like cooking – well here’s the low down – I don’t like it much.

Walter Carl Polzin - Milwaukee, WI “Wallie”

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Thursday, February 28, 1929

February 28, 1929September 22, 2018 ~ Krista Polansky

I shouldn’t really be the one – there are in my estimation a whole carload of nicer fellows right in your own town than I am…
But don’t start looking for them now otherwise I’ll be out of luck.

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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