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Lum's New Year Resolution

Lum and Abner · January 1, 1940 · 14 min · 2,215 words

The transcript of “Lum's New Year Resolution”, an episode of Lum and Abner first broadcast January 1, 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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two lovable old characters in the hill country. Long and bad men, and the graph record made, what you'd think is you'd toss restfully in bed unable to get to sleep. When you played that record later on, it might sound something like this.

Now, doesn't that sound just the way it is when you're kept away tonight, one thought after another races through your head, disconnected and vague, and underlying all your thoughts, the knowledge of how miserable you feel.

But why not consider this thought? Maybe coffee nerves are the cause of your sleep business. Maybe in spite of the many people who can drink coffee without staying awake, you're one of the many others who can't.

And if that's so, if you think coffee disturbs your rest, better switch to post them. For post them contains no caffeine or stimulant of any kind that could possibly keep you awake. Adversives economical too.

It actually costs less than one has in the cup. So by all means, it calls a robs you sleep, drink postum instead. See if the change doesn't help even in a few days. After drinking in postum, say for two weeks, see if you are in really sleeping as sound as ever.

Drink postum, there's a reason. And now, let's see what's going on down in Pine Ridge. Well, friends, in as much as this is New Year's Day, there isn't much activity in Pine Ridge. However, the time-bound store is open as usual, but more from force of habit than because our old friends really expect any business.

As we look in our little community, we find the larm and grandpa for the spares sitting beside the store talking. In your smoke, violin, how do you achieve me? I wondered what in the world are you doing with the store open today?

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