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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1972
Page
5
Reader shares turning an outdated tent shaped dress into a long skirt in under an hour with added cuffs turned into a neckline and pockets from sleeves. Advice encourages imagination, budgeting, and saving habits, stressing 10 percent save, pay first, and avoiding impulse buys, with tips on bank savings and price comparisons.
A vintage catalog advertisement for Marian Martin patterns from the Mexico Ledger. It promotes instant sewing books and fashion hooks with patterns for Misses sizes and fabrics, urging readers to send 467 Pattern Dept. 232 West 18th Street New York 10011. Prices are listed as seventy five cents per pattern with 25 cents extra for mail and handling. The ad emphasizes quick wear tomorrow and fashionable silhouettes.
Puzzle fragment shows a mixed list of across and down clues with misspellings and partial words. It references numbers, several language hints, and a reference to yesterday's solution. Readable items include clues like Anything highflown Uraeus and Sleep wear.
The missive notes frugal living with practical tips to save money on groceries while warning against unnecessary luxury. It contrasts staple needs like potatoes bread sugar coffee and salt with olives and hearts of palm. A humorous tone shares a vanity counter tale and asserts a simple sink is a better invention for organizing a home.
A catalog of farming gear including a milking machine with two buckets, two cattle back kicking clamps, creep feeders, mineral feeder, galvanized water tank, four rolls of heavy woven wire, used wire, 135 pentagonal seven foot posts, seasoned hedge and locust posts, line and corners, eighty sleep posts eight feet, half moon posts, fencing anchors, heavy cables and barrels.
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