Safety in Numbers (1938)

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The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
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May 30, 1938
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The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.

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