D.O.R.A. TWINS
4 r FVTHER, GRANDMOTHER, AND ■ ■ UNCLE AKRESTJiD. The story of a D.O.R.A. os™*.s the-Realm'Act)- ouiedy is told by the "■lrish Telegraph." 'A Londonderry merclinnt whose wife was-expecting a child had to seak'a nurse during the night: Dora's regulations forbid people being in the'streets at tight unless "they have a permit, and a few moments after tne husband set out a srtfirn .voice culled "Halt 1 " Half an hour later he found bimself a prisoner in. the military barracks a mile and 1 a half away, P<mrmg . put'vniri entreaties to an unsentimental ° Meanwhile his brother, anxious about the delay, set out to find'him. His-ques* ended in the same manner. Finally tne husband's mother ventured out in searen of ■■ the two men. and when she also tos b* ghfc to the barracks, tie authority W„,v to thint that, after all there might • be some truth in the explanation offered by the threo people. After inquiries 'ley were all pleased, Thev arrived home to discover that I ho. population of Derry had increased by two. since their absence. One of the twins, a girl, is lo be christened Dora.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 21, 20 October 1920, Page 4
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188D.O.R.A. TWINS Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 21, 20 October 1920, Page 4
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