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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1975
Page
4
Dear Folks recounts fixing home and office items with epoxy using a tuna can as a mixing surface. The column humorously notes Wee Willie the gray matter offering advice and asks how to wake it up. It ends with a ham purchase weighed against waste to compare cost per pound and advice on boneless options.
CHICAGO AP Mary T. Brooks director of the United States Mint urged bank executives to return 20 billion pennies to circulation. She notes the penny remains valuable for tax calculations and consumer prices, arguing minting costs and demand justify keeping pennies in use despite copper price concerns.
Florida prosecutors will file criminal charges within a week against officers of up to 38 corporations tied to a land fraud racket. The scheme allegedly defrauded about 1,550 investors, mostly retirees, of 28 million dollars in Dade, Lee, Charlotte, and Collier counties. Authorities estimate thousands nationwide may have been bilked across 350 million to 1 billion dollars.
The Monday page lists the Smothers Brothers show at 7:00 p.m. on channels 5 8 and 10 with guests Linda Ronstadt and Hoyt Axton. Also featured are Harlem Voices Faces a Swedish documentary, the 27th Emmy Awards at 8:00 p.m. on channels 4 7 and 13, and NBC’s Tonight work by Della Reese with various daytime and late-night programming across multiple stations.
Premier Souvanna Phouma hints that the Pathet Lao now controls the government in Laos. The U S states a gunboat fired on and seized a U S merchant ship in the Gulf of Thailand. A government study blames welfare cheating for waste. U S highway deaths rose 18 percent in 1974 versus 1973. True or False?
The prime minister urged a partial lifting of the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba, seeking resumed shipments of food and medicine to ease humanitarian impact. He framed the move as necessary for civilian relief and improved ties.
A vocabulary exercise lists four pairs: epaulet epidermis, envisa ge four choices, epistle with options a through e. The task assigns 4 points per correct watch and asks to select definitions for each term.
Miami Seaquarium hosts a baby manatee and her mother. Scientists believe this is the first manatee born in captivity. The note appears with two other trivia prompts about Mike Marshall and family activities.
A brief scoreboard note reports excellent performance by Ver Points with a final score of 71 to BO at a Madison Wisconsin venue. The event highlights a strong showing by the team from the host organization.
The page notes that teams or players scoring 61 to 70 points are rated as Fair, while higher results are labeled Good. An answers section at the bottom of the page provides further details or clarifications.
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