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Escapes from Prison

Lum and Abner · January 5, 1940 · 14 min · 2,233 words

The transcript of “Escapes from Prison”, an episode of Lum and Abner first broadcast January 5, 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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There's a postum. The favorite mealtime drink in millions of American homes present those two lovable old characters from the hill country, Long and I'm now. When it came time for someone in your family to fix the furnace before going to bed,

it didn't happen to you. Well, if that had ever happened in your home, in fact if any of the usual noises around the house that should not upset you do affect you that way, we're just considered this possibility. Maybe you know of what doctors call a nervous irritable, and maybe coffee nerves is to blame.

Because it's no exaggeration, while many people can drink coffee without becoming nervous and irritable, many others just shouldn't touch it. So is you shouldn't. If you think coffee is making you cranky and jittery, switch to post-em.

Because there's no caffeine, no stimulant, nothing in post-em that could possibly affect you on herbs. are delightful tempting new thyme drink that a fragrant aroma and a delicious mellow flavor that you will enjoy to the utmost. So just ask your brochure for postum. If coffee has been making you a nervous irritable, see what happens when you drink postum instead. In a

couple of weeks, see if you aren't mighty glad you switch to postum. And now, let's see what's going on down in Pine Ridge. Well friends, Lemon Abner are really in trouble. As we left the old fellas last Wednesday, an inspector from the post office department was telling them he had to take them into

Little Rock for questioning about their unauthorized post office. Abner has returned to Pine Ridge however, and as we're looking on the little community today, we find him over at the Jotting Down store talking to Grand Pappy Spears.

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