Lum and Abner · February 21, 1940 · 14 min · 2,143 words
The transcript of “Women Want to Take Over”, an episode of Lum and Abner first broadcast February 21, 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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The makers of Postam, the favorite mealtime drink in millions of American homes, present those two love-and-belover characters from the Hill Country, Marlman Abner.
Before we visit Pine Ridge and find out what's happening to Lomann Abner, I want you to know what happened to another very good friend of mine. I think a few months ago, we never knew what it was to miss a night's sleep.
He'd even boast about it, said he could turn off the light and be sound asleep before the room got died. But one night he didn't drop off so easily. He found himself lying in bed staring wide awake at the darkness, tossing and turning and counting feet, doing all the things people do trying to make sleep come, and that went on night after night.
What had happened to that man? What had changed him from a person who could fall asleep during a thunderstorm to a tossing, turning, restless, wide-eyed and thom yet? It was nerves. of. Of us in the just in the nervous exhaustion of your irritable, and you think coffee nerves may be responsible or partly responsible, by all means, switch to post-em.
Post-em cannot make you nervous, cannot keep you awake, contains no caffeine or stimulant of any kind. So enjoy hearing, full-bodied post-em, speaking in the cup, drink it at meals instead of coffee, and then enjoy two weeks.
See if your nerves aren't steadier. See if you aren't sleeping soundly again. See if you don't think today you'll switch to Boston. And now let's see what's going on down in pine reeds. Friends, you know the women of pine reeds have destroyed the purpose of the men's protective association by locking their husbands out of their houses. And this morning the two associations are having a
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