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37 Miles from Mexico *and* 27 Miles from Poland

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The answer is “yes”, the sign is real; the question though is where does it work? 

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[Source: Popular Science Monthly, July 1940.]

The location, according to the article, is Lynchville, Maine, which is about 50 miles northeast of Portland.  

 

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