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Challenge of the Yukon: The Shanghaied Sergeant

Challenge of the Yukon · December 21, 1949 · 29 min · 4,858 words

The transcript of “The Shanghaied Sergeant”, an episode of Challenge of the Yukon first broadcast December 21, 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 gunshots echo across the windswept, snow-covered reaches of the wild northwest, Baker Puff Week, and Baker Puff Right, the breakfast cereal shot from gun, present the challenge of the Yukon. It's Yukon King Swift, the strongest lead dog of the northwest, placing the trail for Sergeant Preston of the Northwest Mounted Police, In his relentless pursuit of lawbreakers,

Unkink the new skies! Gold, gold 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 Poth Wheat and Quaker Poth Rise, bringing you the adventures of Sergeant Preston and his wonder dog Yukon King as they meet the challenge of the Yukon!

You, fellas and girls, know a good food when you taste one. And here's what's so good about Quaker Puff Wheat and Quaker Puff Dries. They're made from only the premium grains of wheat or rice.

And these choice-select grains are shot from guns, actually exploded up to eight times normal size to make them bigger and better tasting. Yes, they're crisp, tender, delicious. Let's see how good they taste tomorrow morning!

Treat yourself to Quaker Pup Rice or Quaker Pup Wheat! Scagway in American territory was the principal port of entry to the Yukon during the Gold Rush, and it was as wild and lawless a town as was ever found in the Old West.

Sergeant Preston drove down there from White Pass one afternoon in December, and after He'd be free at unharnessed his team and turned the dogs into the run and back of the Skagway Inn. He made some inquiries of the proprietor.

Who's the town marshall this week going? Do you mean to say you haven't heard the news, I didn't... No, what is it, another murder? I should say not. There was a little gun fired outside the 303 last night, but...

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