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The Day Book, Chicago, April 4, 1912

The “Dorothy” bag, the latest receptacle for Milady’s knickknacks. The bag came into unenviable notoriety, when it was conspicuously carried by thousands of militant English suffragettes in their smashing campaign. They found the “Dorothy” the most convenient kind of handbag in which to carry stones and hide hammers.

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