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The Wayward River Matter (AFRTS)

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar · June 8, 1958 · 26 min · 3,697 words

The transcript of “The Wayward River Matter (AFRTS)”, an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar first broadcast June 8, 1958. 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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I'm Hollywood, it's time now, poor. Johnny Deller. Johnny, this is Lee Hawkins. Common Eddle insurance and trust company. Lee, my old fishing proud. You still holding down the Ohio branch of the company there in Columbus?

Yes, John, I am. But now look here. Brother, I never will forget the great fishing you and I had over on Derby Creek a couple of years, Frank. Look, John. And long about this time, every year the urge really gets to me.

Hey, if the stream's cleared up yet from the spring rains. Oh, quite the contrary. As a matter of five. How about a little raccoon creek down there, Jackson? I remember those big channel cats in the bass.

Johnny, were you listening? Huh? Oh, sure, I'm all ears. The big river has gone on a rampage again. Spring floods. You mean the Ohio? Yes, and every other river of any size. I see. Destruction all over.

Oh, I am sorry, Lee. I didn't mean to sound so old. What do you know? I mentioned fishing, and I lose my head. Look, Johnny, I need you out here. Can you come right away?

Well, sure. Billy, in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense accord, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Yours truly? Johnny Dollar. Oh, Act 1 of yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the Continental Insurance and Trust Company Columbus, Ohio office

following as an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the Wayward River matter. Expense account item $143.5 in a transportation in New York and a flagship to Columbus, Ohio. It was 5.30 pm and raining hard when the big foreign chain plane set down gently at Port Columbus Airport I've got some sports on seven miles out of town.

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