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Family Business Advertisements

Most Oconto County businesses were locally owned by resident families and business partners. These advertisements from the past provide a window not only to the prices and typesof goods offered, but what was important to a quality life, what ailments most affected people, and how people  were expected act and treat each other.
  Researched, transcribed and contributed by Richard La Brosse


1939
#1.John Guetz - Clothes Cleaner & Dryer
#2.Delores - Beauty Shoppe
#3.Tarlton's- Meat Market
#4. E E Magnin- Hardware
#5. C O Richardson - Oconto County Co-Op Ass'n
#6.William Wach- Falls Lumber, Building Supplies & Fuel Co.
#7.Wadham- Service Station Norman Kurtz manager
#7b Gerhard - Photographic Studio
#8.Balderson - Cash Foods Market
#9 LaPorte Motor Co.- Tires & Repairs
#10 Ritter - Service Station
#11 Paholke- Service Station
#12 Kadlec - Christensen- Chevrolet Car Sales
#13 Drew - Tavern, Food & Music
#14 McDougal & Son - Horses & Livestock

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