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Pat-a-Cake, Pat-a-Cake, Baker’s Man: Of Poetry and Doughetry

Posted on July 20, 2021 by hometown

Before there were Ninnie Baird and her eponymous bakery products, there was Walter Joseph Doherty. And before there were the Burma-Vita Company and its poems advertising its Burma-Shave product, there was, again, Walter Joseph Doherty. Walter Joseph Doherty was born in County … Continue reading →

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