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gross laughed. ' I or oGre«THE “DANCE” PROGRAM p£s1. In the Argonne Forest, France—A j ('v ° e Sample of a Machine Gunner’s ! c.Humor. i.e•shi onmensaidito j New York City.—Secretary Bonj. F. peo;e Seldon of the Y. M. C. A., with our A. torsE. F. in France, writes that “our the boys were right at the front when j to a the last gun was fired. Some of our com troops are still on the line doing oc* | tirrn0 1 cupation duty. Our boys have done j their bit at three fronts—Vosges,reaishoiandVerdun and Argonne—where we lost »• so many, and Metz. The units of the Staf t- 92d Division, which are not on the j lecti g line, are quartered in little towns tion near Metz. I think 1 shall remain ant v . with the stevedore boys until they j C. 1n1 leave.” Natnj Incidentally Mr. Seldon says: “You Wmcan’t beat the Afro-American for j Koii■ ^ TH'. ^ .fthumor. Here is a sample from one I Fort of the runners of the 351st Machine Lon Gun Battalion, who is in Capt. Dick- v\*erc ey’s company.” It reads as follows: dayReal Humor. T. /The Allies’ picnic, in the Argonne cent ” Forest, even night, in No Man’s ther I Land. * Will1 Dance Program—t, Trench trot. 2, Airlt j Dugout glide. 3, Shell-hole flop. 4, of tl Gas mask hug. 5, Shrapnel slide. 6. by t Bullet bounce. 7, Machine gun shiver, and *! 8, 0\er the top waltz. Hart Athletic Events—1, Air battle. 2, j v#io. i Grenade throwing. 3, Gas rush. 4. and i Dugout dash. 5, Trench run. 6. sure Ducking shells. HatlMenu—Corned Willy, iron biscuits, Mrs s Bocho Mood. landt ! Admission—Plenty of l»ackbone. Pre-Don’t come if you are afraid to die. Etta Committee—r ront line messengers, resu 351st Machine Gun Battalion. j $1,04iFrizes—First prize, wooden cross in i star France; second prize, total and per- i Jum manent disability; third prize, bos-j jzed pital ship Jto U. S. A : fourth prize, scho t convalescent in base hospital in thei France: fifty p.rize. wound chevron. duri
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Cleveland Gazette
Cleveland, Ohio, US
Sat, Jan 11, 1919
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