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Speculating Box Contents

Lum and Abner · August 29, 1941 · 12 min · 2,360 words

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The makers of Alka-Seltzer bring you love and after. Reminded me of an old proverb the other day that makes a lot of sense. Perhaps you remember it. Good things come in small packages.

Well, you know there's a lot of truth in that old saying, and to prove it, just take a look at a package of Alka-Seltzer tablets. Now there's a small package that has a world of good stored up in it.

Just think of all the happiness and comfort it can bring into your home. those times when a touch of acid indigestion caused dad to feel miserable and act unlike his usual self. And how about those headaches that mother gets every now and then, when the housework piles up for the children are unusually trying?

Oh, I tell you, folks, there are so many times some member of the family needs the quick, pleasant relief Alka-Seltzer offers that no home should ever be without a package handy, and you won't be either once you've experienced the remarkable relief it offers for headaches, or acid indigestion, muscular aches and pains, in cold distress and morning after misery.

Try it, won't you? Get a package of Alcaselcer tablets from your drugist the very next time you're in his store. You'll be thankful more than once for this friendly suggestion, I'm sure. And now, let's see what's going on down in Pine Ridge.

Yesterday, Lomyn Abner had an unusual experience in their new bank. stranger left a tin box with them for safe keeping in their bank vault giving them five dollars for their trouble the old fellows are naturally consumed with curiosity as to the contents of the mysterious looking box as we look in on the little community today we find the two old fellows down at

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