Lame Duck Mascot Stirs Fort Terry Kitchen Comedy
Battery B adopts a wounded duck as a mascot and turns its kitchen into a stage for comic diversions. Cook MacDaniel uses the sink and a box mascot, while Corporal Rule guards the fun as Private Duens and Cook Weir clash over the bird's fate. Dan Weir, the merry cook, awaits a letter that changes his mood while the duck adds cheer to the island post.
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Battery B
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Mas
Mac
Mae
Cook Weir
George Duens
Bridgeport
Rule
Dan
Merk Terry
Fila
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MacDaniel Caine
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Maesked
Johnson
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Mace
Cotton Men to Ship Solid Trains to Mills
New Benford Massachusetts February 1 plans to bring trains loaded exclusively with cotton from southern shipping points to mill cities in the east were announced by cotton brokers. The move aims to relieve raw cotton shortages at the mills, especially in New Fingland, with 29 000 bales to be consigned to Ohio.
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New Fingland
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Mystery of a Fireman Turned Cook in France Narrative
Washington reports from February 1 say letters from the United States to soldiers in France take days longer due to ocean conditions. Corporal Rule recounts stories of Dan Daniel Weir, the hen cook of the Arctic company, whose past as a Mount Vernon fireman adds to a long standing mystery surrounding his life and duties aboard.
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United States
France
Burleson
House
MacDaniel
Dan
Elvil
Mount Vernon
The
Artic Company
Plebians
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