Lum and Abner · January 22, 1940 · 15 min · 2,308 words
The transcript of “to Be a Family Man”, an episode of Lum and Abner first broadcast January 22, 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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I caught a robs you of sleep. Switch to a postum. The makers of postum. The postum means I am drinking millions of American homes, present those two lovable old characters from the hill country, mom and abner.
Very often, it isn't what you say to count, but how you say it. For instance, in the morning, if instead of greeting people like this... Good morning, lovely day, isn't it? You generally greet them like this.
How good morning, lovely days, and it's... Now you'll admit that although the words are the same, the meanings are quite different. One second greeting, you honestly sound so tired and sleepy that nothing could seem very good.
Well, why are you so tired and sleepy? Censes are it because you don't sleep properly, and maybe coffee nerves is to blame. But while many people can drink coffee without losing sleep from it, many others cannot.
So if you think coffee causes you to toss and turn at night, switch to postums. While postums contain no caffeine in or stimulant of any kind that could possibly make you sleepless. You'll enjoy this delicious tempting mule time drink.
While postums, so naturally different and flavor than coffee, has its own distinctive full body goodness. A steaming hot cup of postum is, Cheeringly fragrant and deliciously mellow. So, of course, they keep you awake night.
Drink postum and tend. See if the chain doesn't make a difference, even in a few days. And after giving postum a fair trial, say for two weeks, see if you ever slept better. Drink postum, there's a reason.
And now, let's see what's going on down in pine red. A friend you'll remember that when we left our old friend last week, Lumb had just received a wire from Florence Bumont, the rich widow whose newspaper advertisement for her husband, Lumb had answered my letter.
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