Word: castleblayney
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...last week, Lange's shop was 70% rebuilt, and he had finally been able to fill the last of his back orders. To Barber Charles Liddy of Castleblayney, Ireland, who had sent in a paid-up order in 1939, Lange shipped six new Solingen razors. Included in the shipment was a note: Wagner & Lange, it said, were sorry about the unavoidable delay...
...down the border they sent the rumor flying: "'tis the British want our cats. They'll eat them, and they're that hard up for a rag to put on their backs, they'll even skin them." From Carrick to Ballyshannon and back to Castleblayney the old maids nodded and locked up their pets. "Men are even stealing cats to sell to the British," said one woman to a TIME correspondent last week. "Do you know," said another, "there are only ten cats left in Carrickmacross...
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