One little smile to share, at least.
"Miss Iris Davis, a nineteen year old from Clapham, London is a volunteer worker of the Dumb Friends Leagues, and spends a great deal of time recovering cats with the aid of a "lassoo" from the debris of bombed house. So far she has rescued six hundred of these feline strays, 8 November 1940."
[Dumb Friends is an animal rescue organization, if the name seems odd. Chapters exist today under that name.]
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It's remarkable what one person can do.
I would guess the name refers to the animals' inability to speak.