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Newspaper
Port Lavaca Wave
Location
Port Lavaca, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1975
Page
2
Readers share practical life hacks from repairing shower curtains to packing sewing kits. Fix torn tops by folding edges, punching new holes, and reusing liners. Suggestions cover button repairs, keeping travel info on folders, matching keys with bright attachments, sharing thrift kitchen tweaks, and packing sewing supplies in bouillon-tab tubes.
A dense listing outlines a 1970s era television timetable across many stations, including News, Lucy, Dragnet, Bonanza, The Twilight Zone era titles, soap operas, game shows, and films. Notable programs span Lucy Show, Dragnet, The Rifleman, The Waltons, Gunsmoke, and films like Oh Great American Tragedy and Moulin Rouge alongside talk shows and news segments.
A fragmentary listing outlines a Friday matinee and morning block across stations with shows such as Sesame Street Captain Kangaroo Mister Rogers The Last Wagon and Love Lucy among familiar titles. It includes game shows and soap operas with times spanning from 6:30 to 11:30 AM and ends with a note about second class postage paid in Port Lavaca and Victoria Texas.
A scrambled list of daytime and children's programs appears with times and titles including Dream of Jeannie General Hospital Match Game Sesame Street The Way Gold Lost in Space Mickey Mouse Club Petticoat Junction and The Beverly Hillbillies among others, likely from a 1960s 1970s TV guide page.
On this date in history Gibraltar was captured in 1704 and Simon Bolivar was born in 1783. Other events include the 1870 Pacific Coast railroad car reaching New York, Hoover signing the Kellogg Briand pact in 1929, 1942 German city bombings, 1946 Bikini Atoll atom test, 1959 Nixon Khrushchev kitchen debate, and the Nixon papers subpoena ruling a year ago. Birthdays include Frances Kelsey and Alexander Cohen. Thought for today by Somerset Maugham notes hard work for knowledge.
New York state launches a TV lottery pilot on WABC in a live half hour show hosted by Monty Hall. Officials hope high ratings boost ticket sales while questions arise over which stations will produce a potential weekly series and whether all major outlets were treated fairly.
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