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Irl Ducote “Duke” Andrepont

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Irl Ducote “Duke” Andrepont

Birth
Death
10 Feb 1999 (aged 80)
Burial
Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, USA Add to Map
Plot
Sec 15.
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Ducote "Duke" Andrepont, one of the founders of the Daily World in Opelousas in 1939, died Wednesday in Baton Rouge, La. He was 80. The Daily World was the first daily newspaper in the nation to use the offset printing method; a copy of the first edition is in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.

Published in the Tulsa World (OK) - Saturday, February 13, 1999

Ducote "Duke" Andrepont, one of the founders of the Daily World in Opelousas in 1939, died Wednesday in Baton Rouge, La. He was 80. The Daily World was the first daily newspaper in the nation to use the offset printing method; a copy of the first edition is in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.

Published in the Tulsa World (OK) - Saturday, February 13, 1999



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