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Christmas Story

Lum and Abner · December 23, 1938 · 14 min · 2,036 words

The transcript of “Christmas Story”, an episode of Lum and Abner first broadcast December 23, 1938. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Lum and Abner plays Lum and Abner free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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The makers of Postam, the favorite mealtime drink in millions of American homes, present your favorite radio friend, Lao Manavme. In Dickens' famous story of Christmas Carol, remember the grouchy, mean-tempered old man, Mr. Scrooge? Well, even today, I think we run across a lot of people, almost as bad-tempered as old Scrooge, don't you?

And the pity of it is that most cranky people don't want to be that way. Usually, there are what doctors call nervous irritables. People who suffer from indigestion or headaches or can't sleep at night.

Any one of those symptoms may mean that you have coffee nerves. For while many people can drink coffee without becoming jittery, many others cannot. If coffee nerves are making a nervous irritable of you, switch to postum.

Our postum contains no caffeine or stimulant of any kind, and it's as delicious as it is satisfying, with a cheering aroma and distinctive mellow flavor that is postum's own. For your convenience, it comes in two forms.

Postum cereal, the drink you make by boiling, a percolating, and instant postum mixed instantly in the cup. So if coffee nerves upset your digestion, keep you awake or make you feel headachey, switch to postum with your meals.

See how you improve the first few days. See if you want less of a nervous irritable at the end of two weeks, and after you've given post to a full 30-day test, see if you're not again a cheerful, good-natured person.

And now, let's see what's going on down in Pine Ridge. Well, it's Christmas time in Pine Ridge. And all business and other activities have been cast aside in preparation for celebrating the holiday.

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