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Challenge of the Yukon: The Lucky Shirt

Challenge of the Yukon · April 11, 1949 · 29 min · 5,241 words

The transcript of “The Lucky Shirt”, an episode of Challenge of the Yukon first broadcast April 11, 1949. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Thanksgiving Radio plays Challenge of the Yukon free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Now as gun shots echo across the windswept, slow-covered reaches of the wild northwest, Quaker pup wheat, and Quaker pup rice, the breakfast cereal shot from guns. Present the challenge of the Yukon. It's Yukon King, swiftness and strongest lead dog of the Northwest, placing the trail for Sergeant Preston of the Northwest Mounted Police,

in his relentless pursuit of warbreakers. Unpaint! Unnuke! Gold! Gold is discovered in the Yukon! A stampede to the Klondike in the wild race for riches! Back to the days of the Gold Rush! With Quaker Puff Wheat and Quaker Puff Rice, bringing you the adventures of Sergeant Preston and his Wonder Dog Yukon King as they meet!

The Challenge of the Yukon! And oh man, those kids are in a hurry! And no wonder! They know Mom serving a breakfast of swell-tasting Quaker Puff Wheat or Quaker Puff Rice. These ready to serve grains of premium wheat or rice are actually exploded up to eight times normal size to make them crisp and tender.

Yes, wheat or rice shot from guns rarely hits the spot. Don't miss out tomorrow morning. Enjoy this breakfast treat. Quaker Puff Rice or Quaker Puff Wheat. The rush to the Yukon was just getting underway when Lee Swanson finished college as a geologist.

Lee and his young wife Sadie saw a golden opportunity in the Yukon. But after two weeks in the boomtown of Dawson, they began to doubt the wisdom in coming to the Yukon. They'll neither admit it to the other. Until one day Lee returned to their room with a bundle of laundry under his arm.

What's that you have there? The laundry. I just stopped at the Chinamans for it. Oh, I forgot to get it. This little bundle of laundry cost me exactly $30. $30? That's it. And you can't blame the Chinaman.

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