Widder Beaumont's Telegram
Lum and Abner · January 19, 1940 · 13 min · 2,304 words
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It costs me makes you nervous. Switch to the Post-em. The makers of Post-em. The Facebook, Mealtime, drink in millions of American homes. Present those two lovable old characters from the hill country.
Lom and Abner. Every so often, it's a mighty good idea to check and triple-check yourself. First, you see that you aren't forever talking to the children like this. Quiet children! If you can't play quietly, you can't play at all.
I just can't and won't stand that noise. Second, to see that you aren't always nagging grown-up, like this. John, stop reading that paper and listen. You might pay some attention to me. And third, to see that you don't see you sorry for yourself, like this.
Oh, why do I have to be so upset and nervous all the time? Yes, you really should check on yourself to see whether you have a tendency to behave in any one or all three of those ways.
Because they can singly altogether, little things like that may mean you've become what doctors call a nervous irritable and Maybe coffee nerves is to blame But how many people can drink coffee without getting touchy and nervous many others cannot So if you think you have coffee nerves switch to post them Prostam contains no caffeine or stimulant of any kind that could possibly set your nerves on edge
Post them have a delicious mellow flavor that will really appeal to you. So if coffee makes you nervous and irritable, drink Post them instead, and in a couple of weeks, be as you aren't much happier and much less nervous.
Get Post them from your bozer. There's a reason. And now let's move us going on down in time, Reed. Well, friends, you remember that early this week, the county seat newspaper carried an item stating that a widow in Texas would like to correspond with some kind limited-laid man capable of handling a large estate with the object of matrimony.
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