Midshave

Rumors abound of a ghost who haunts the third dining room, which purportedly was once a barber shop where a local mobster was cut down midshave.

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“What did he say? The barber.” / “Not a word. He stopped midshave, straight-blade razor in his hand, and he went to his cabinet and got them for me.[…]”

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There was just one slight wrinkle: The best-known justice of the peace was also the town barber. That meant that barbershop customers were often pressed into service as witnesses to a short-notice marriage ceremony, sometimes standing up for a couple midshave.

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“Okay,” I say, “I guess we can put it on the credit card, but I can’t take it in tomorrow morning because I have a banana job.” / This stops him midshave.

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