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Show SENDS 'NOTES' FROM ALASKA Historian of Ketchikan Legion Post Writes in Answer to Letters of Sympathy. 'Tlease note following," the long-suffering long-suffering historian of the Ketchikan post of the American Legion in Alaska Alas-ka has written in answer to many letters let-ters of sympathy from buddies back in the States: 1. There isn't a gold miner in the post. 2. The thermometer has never dropped lower than five below. 3. The deepest snow In recent years was three inches. 4. Some winters pass with practically practical-ly no snow. 5. Overcoats are often a nuisance In January and February. 6. Raincoats and umbrellas are commonly com-monly worn. 7. No one has even worn furs or snowshoes to a post meeting. 8. "Gold-fishing" is the principal industry. in-dustry. 9. No one reads by the northern lights or the midnight sun. The fact that people in Ketchikan ride in automobiles, and that the only dog sleds there are hot-dog sleds is hard to get across, according to the historian. |