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The Salt City Matter - Ep 1

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar · April 2, 1956 · 14 min · 2,387 words

The transcript of “The Salt City Matter - Ep 1”, an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar first broadcast April 2, 1956. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar plays Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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From Hollywood it's time now for Johnny Dollar Johnny Sam Ruben. Oh I don't know. It's a feeling I get every time I hear your voice on the phone Sam Well the last time you called I take a job and had to hock my watch for cable fair in Hong Kong That's what it means. So I bought you new watch tonight. What's in your mind?

Ed Julian so long Sam Johnny Johnny this is important. I need help if you're fooling around with somebody like Ed Julian And you sure do need help, go call a cop. They can't help me, I'm cold timesy.

I'll see you after breakfast, Sam. Tonight and every weekday night, Bob Bailey and the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator, yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted by special investigator Johnny Dollar.

To Samuel Rubin and associates, insurance brokers, majestic building Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Salt City matter. I didn't know it was going to be that Salt City, I mean, but I did know the name Ed Julian.

Every policeman in the country knew that name. My first impulse was to hang up the phone on Sam, but I didn't. Instead I spent 85 cents, that's my first item, on Kev Fair to get me to Sam's office.

Welcome Johnny, long time no see. Come on in, sit down, have a smoke. Sam Rubin looked about the same as I remembered him and he acted about the same. He shook my hand, pushed a cigar at me, held up a $160 lighter and smiled.

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