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Newspaper

Bridgeport Telegram

Location

Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America

Date

Feb 02, 1918

Page

7

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.

Fort Lerry Battery B MacDaniel Mas Mac Mae Cook Weir George Duens Bridgeport Rule Dan Merk Terry Fila Chere MacDaniel Caine Daniel Maesked Johnson Dani 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.

New Benford Mass New Fingland Ohis

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.

Washington United States France Burleson House MacDaniel Dan Elvil Mount Vernon The Artic Company Plebians

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Fort Terry James P. Copeland Terry Tohen-Hound Co Kitchen-Hound Cookie Corporal Rule Daniel Weir East End Fairfield Avenue Akes Leutlers Main ST BANK Rogers’ High Rogers Doerner Ewark Shoe Stores Main Street Wall Street U.S. District Court Aimwell Coy Coats Serge A. L. DeLaney, Receiver
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