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Black Market Meat Dangers

Description

Grandpappy Spears purchases illegal meat from underground sellers to give as a gift to Aunt Charity. The show includes an educational message about the actual black market woven into the storyline.

Lum and Abner was an American network radio comedy program created by Chester Lauck and Norris Goff that was produced from 1931 to 1954. Modeled on life in the small town of Waters, Arkansas, near where Lauck and Goff grew up, the show proved immensely popular. In 1936, Waters changed its name to "Pine Ridge" after the show's fictional town.

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Cast & Crew

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Chester A. Lauck

Cast

Thu Apr 22 1943 Thu Apr 22

Comedy Soap Opera

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