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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1975
Page
2
A farmer visits an insurance office and notes how clerks show genuine concern for customers. The piece warns that caring builds business, while indifference drives customers away, urging all Ledgerland businesses to demonstrate real care and invite customers to feel valued.
The message links good living to loving God and Spirit filling the heart. It states love joy peace and other fruits come only after the Spirit occupies the heart. It presents a devotional view that true virtue arises from divine influence rather than personal effort.
A Missouri letter from Eileen Seckler L.P.N. Nursing Supervisor to the Ledger editor discusses keeping promises, and notes that six letters to federal and state lawmakers prompted responses from Senator Stuart Symington Representative William Hungate and State Representative Ray Hamlett. They express willingness to visit Coldwell's nursing home in Mexico Missouri and invite the community to visit.
The award for March goes to Theodore Hoyt of Battery A in Anchorage Alaska announced yesterday. The item notes Hoyt is the son of Mr and Mrs Elwood Hoyt of Laddonia.
Charles Eddie Lucas says he served three and a half years of a five-year sentence, escaped, and has lived as a free man for eight years with a family. He argues he has been punished and rehabilitated and questions returning him to prison, comparing his case to Watergate figures and asking supporters to help keep him free.
A reader asks if handwriting can reveal danger. Ann Landers says no and urges real-life caution as temperamental traits emerge later. Other letters discuss life insurance beneficiary choices and a couple debating children. advice stresses individual choice and potential marriage risks.
Dear readers. A sedentary woman asks what walk bike or rope jumping can aid weight control after a large evening meal. The doctor says diet matters more, walking and biking are sensible, rope jumping is too strenuous, and begin gradually. He suggests YWCA swimming or tennis for light trimming and notes restriction of intake helps more than exercise. Also covers Parkinsonism new therapies, itchy skin, yawning and shortness of breath in a wife.
Fragmentary OCR shows erratic channel names and locations across St Louis Ottumwa Hannibal Columbia and Jefferson City with note that listings may be unreported changes. Mentions weather and Ty 12 as a reference point but lacks coherent schedule data.
TV night features Rosenthal and Jones pilot at 7 on channels 4 7. Cards take on Phillies at 7 on channels 5 8. Bacharach in the Park at 7 on channel 11. Wall Street Week with Sen. Proxmire at 7 30 on channel 9. CBS Movie Kate McShane airs 8 on channels 4 7 13. Also movie Quartets and game shows across channels 3 8 10 13, with The 2 000 Year Old Man repeat at 9 30 on 4 7 13 and Grand Ole Opry House from Nashville at 10 30 on channels 2 3 17. Midnight Special airs 12 on channels 5 8 10.
Channel line up features Senate explained at noon on Channels 4 7 and 13 Omega. NBA playoffs and baseball double header roll into 1 15 Texas Rangers from Oakland with Masters golf at 3 30 live. News and movies follow including Gibbsville Sweet November Strike Force and John O Hara dramas across NBC ABC and CBS with late night Johnny Mathis and Rock Concert segments.
A 90 minute NBC drama based on John O'Hara stories and Frank Gilroy direction follows Yale dropout Malloy who returns to Gibbsville faces booze crime and newspapering while seeking a new life. John Savage shines as Malloy with supporting realism from Biff McGuire and Gig Young in a postwar small town.
Birthday wishes go to Marcy Creel Glenwood Brown Jerry Wayne Williams of Sturgeon Keith Huff Charles M Fennewald Mra Robert Chapman Alice Lee Kampeter of Farber Dale Gibbona Mra Charles Lin coln Rhoda Louise Hays Mrz Ernest Roy Harvey and Dale Gerald Harvey Today Mrs Ethel Kennedy is 47 Thought for today: To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue a French proverb
Publication details list daily except Sundays and holidays with address 300 N Washington St Mexico Mo 65265. Rates cover carriers in Mexico and area towns and mail options across Audrain and adjoining counties, surrounding Missouri regions, and out of state. Office hours are 8 to 5:30 weekdays and 8 to 3 Saturday, with Armed Forces rates at 1.50 per month.
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