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source: Omie Writes Home.pdf
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[document body mixed]
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JOHN E. COCHRAN
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FAMILY ASSOCIATION
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Family Only
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[handwritten: Home | Sibling's Stories | 1st Cousins | Ancestor's Stories | Reunion History | Next Reunion | JECMEF]
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OMIE WRITES HOME
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Ed. Note: The following letter was written by Omie Cochran in Nome, Alaska and sent to her
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sister, Ethel Shinn, in Canfield, Idaho in 1923. It has been stored away these 63 years in the
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original envelope with its 2 cent stamp. The letter has a number of references to the Shinn
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children. Peter was Louis; Polly was Edith; and the 'little black rascal' referred to Maurice.
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Miss Saville was the nurse at the Nome Hospital that was mentioned in the article by Inez in
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the family newsletter two years ago.
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Nome Alaska August 26, 1923
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My Dear Ethel et al.
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I don't know when I did write or when you did
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but I am going to write now however and never
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the less. But I wish I could talk (I can yet but I
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mean to tell you all) instead and see ole Unc Pete
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and Polly sit up and listen and that little black
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rascal of yours would fairly sparkle with
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listening. Can't I see him listening now to all the
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yarns we told last summer?
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[photo: Five people, appearing to be native Alaskan, in winter clothing, standing on a beach with a dog sled in front of them and a boat in the background]
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You see, we-Miss Saville and I, took a trip north
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on the Buford and it was very interesting. We
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went north thru the Bering Strait into the Arctic and as far as the Ice Pack. There the captain
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of our craft and some other mighty hunters went out first in kayaks and later in row boats and
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shot seven walrus. When they also took a movie man and camera, so you will likely see all
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this in the movies before I get to tell you. They came back on board and the ship went up
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along the icebergs and the walrus were 'heisted' on board by the use of the crane which loads
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tons of freight and the beasts were
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