The Nome daily nugget., 1911-03-04
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 The only trouble with them ere post office boxes. was with the individual. for the minute the 'flutter'' of the wire leading from the nerve center passed away they opened just as easy. in fact some commenced to think too easy.
 No excuse for hubby" not bringing home the mail now because he forgot to take the key along. and should he forget the combination he'll sure have troubles. for it will take a whole lot of hard talking to convince wife that straight water will affect one and cause them to forget. right from left and left from right. and make "all numbers look alike to him"
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 The entrance of the Wells Fargo Ex- press Company into Alaska will be hailed with joy on the part of the clti- zens for We now will have a company to refer [" when sending for things from home. In the past we have been somewhat in doubt from year to year whether there would be an express company doing business or not and then 1t being somewhat of a local af- fair it- rates were rather high. Now with an express company of national reputation and millions back of it We can rest assured We will receive the goods delivered to them. or their value in cash should they go astray.
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 When we read of Cupid doing such effective work with the old timers when they reach the outside, 1t leads us to believe that the little fellow is handicapped up here by having real thick hides to penetrate before reach ing a vital spot with his love arrows' '
 He seems to be ever present, and hovers about certain couples getting all the chance in the world to shoot a solo pluxus blow" and bring the young fellow 10 his knees, butt the ar rows don't seem to penetrate deep enough. They must lose their head way, or force as they start to pierce the inner covering og this Northern developed cuticle
 There is no question of doubt in the minds of old time mushers but what th. late Lieutenant West froze to death by being dressed too warm. The cloth ing removed from his body at Fort Davis after he was brought back from Tishou will warrant his death due to freezing coupled with all other condi- iions surrounding ms sau efsaGn1 An, man. woman or child with an equal amount of clothing on their person, can get out here on a day when similar conditions exist, and after mushing for half an hour to two hours in soft snow trying to drive dogs over a traclsless trail and they will be wringlng wet from perspiration with their body fair lN T}tal4lllk
 Water We know from personal ex. perience will draw frost, and the least dampncss on the human body in freez. l ing weather is dangerous to life anC person. One should avoid dressing to, warm while mushing on the trial. Ex perience people who travel will have { light drill parka for mushing in and heavy fur one to slip on when the, slrp or ride on the sled to rest up a hi,
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 our Hon. Delegate James Wicker sham ts wise to the fact of prope clothes for the trail. and the distinctiol Of one who rides and the fellow wh, ests out and mushes. The writer ono heard Judge wlckersham give the fol lowing comment in connection wi,h Nomeite having been caught out an, had his hands frozen during a big gard My experience in mushing ovei Alaska during the winter-and I hay, mushed many hundred miles from Fo. iy- mile 10 other sections of the terri tory when the murcury hovered fo