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Operating a Post Office

Lum and Abner · January 3, 1940 · 13 min · 1,847 words

The transcript of “Operating a Post Office”, an episode of Lum and Abner first broadcast January 3, 1940. 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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Over at Mealtime drinking millions of American homes present those two loveable old characters from the hill country, lamb and apple. And over the last week or 10 days was just about the best time of the whole year for you to check up on your disposition.

Look back for a minute, at parties and little gatherings. If other folks seem to irritate and annoy you, maybe the real trouble was within yourself. Maybe without meaning to be, you were the touchy irritable one.

And if in the back of your grouchiness there was indigestion you can hardly be blamed, but you really owe it to yourself to get it because. You see, possibly your indigestion is due to your coffee nerves, because there's one thing nobody can deny.

And while many people can drink coffee without ill effect, many others cannot. So if you find coffee upset you with your disposition, why not switch to postum? For postum can't possibly harm you. It contains no caffeine or stimulant of any time.

And you'll enjoy post-em immensely. It has a delicious mellow flavor. It makes it quite easy to give up coffee. So from now on, the cause of your distress is coffee. Make post-em your regular meal time drink instead.

See if you don't feel better in just a few days. And after two weeks, long enough to give post-em a real chance, if both your digestion and your disposition aren't much improved. Great post them.

There's a reason. And now, let's see what's going on down in Pine Ridge. Well friends, having heard they were under investigation for operating a post office without government authorization, Lumb and Abner have dropped their post office service, and Van Packerspiers is once again the only postmaster in Pine Ridge.

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