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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1971
Page
4
Tragedy strikes as Mr and Mrs Dan l Daugmeat are evicted for failing to pay a 43 dollar seventy five cent mortgage causing distress to longtime residents in a story mixing fictional names Rex Morgan and Li l Abner context with a mattress factory layoff affecting workers.
A collage of Dear Heloise letters offers practical tricks from readers. Tips include elastic hood ties for kids, using a plastic straw as an easel prop, lifting boiled eggs with an ice cream scoop, shading porch walls with sailcloth and taped brackets, quiet hospital shoes, leveling a wobbly ladder with Heloise’s book, and preserving shirts with cellophane tape.
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Lawrence Wells, 12, was attacked and killed by a cougar while playing near his home in Lytton British Columbia. His father John Wells wounded the animal as it dragged the boy from a culvert beside railroad tracks. The cougar was later located and shot by Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
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