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Local Barbers Cow Tale Prompts Derry Street Office Rumor
The Man About Town column hints at a barber in Derry Church near John Moyer’s coal yards who keeps a cow in his shop and has started a fictional Order of the Cow. The piece weaves humor with sports skits, dances, and local anecdotes, ending with home remedies for starch and varnished wallpaper care.
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Ross Page
Derry Church
John Moyer
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Masonic ‘Temple of
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