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Challenge of the Yukon: When Thief Catches Thief

Challenge of the Yukon · March 1, 1950 · 29 min · 4,912 words

The transcript of “When Thief Catches Thief”, an episode of Challenge of the Yukon first broadcast March 1, 1950. 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 wind, Swept snow-covered reaches in the wild northwest, Waker Puff Wheat and Waker Puff Rice, A breakfast cereal shot from gun, Present the challenge of the Yukon. It's Yukon King, swiftest and strongest lead dog of the northwest, Flazing the trail for Sergeant Preston of the Northwest-Mouted Police, In his relentless pursuit of lawbreakers!

Unking! Un-yohusking! Gold! Gold! Discovered in 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!

And get it! Here's a bell-ringer breakfast dish, a heaping bowl full of Quaker Puffed Wheat or Quaker Puffed Rice covered with milk or cream and topped with sliced bananas. Mmm, mmm! Just taste the tender Christmas, the delicious nut-like flavor of Quaker Puffed Wheat and Quaker Puffed Rice. See how lusciously they blend with the bananas and milk or cream.

For this bell-ringer breakfast treat, hurry and stock up on delicious Quaker Pop rice and Quaker Pop wheat. The Hobbes gang had been broken up by the police in Skagway. A few had been captured, but slick Hobbes and two others had managed to escape just after a big bank robbery.

Slick and one of the men, Joe Jessop, were hiding out in a cabin outside of Skagway. The other man who had escaped, Ed Collins, had disappeared. One day, more than a month after the robbery, Joe Jessup entered the cabin hurriedly with a Scagway newspaper in his hand.

Hey, Slick! He's been caught! They got Ed Collins! Says so in the paper! What? Let me see that paper. Look, it's right there, see. Yeah. Ed got picked up in White Horse in the Yukon territory.

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