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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, December 22, 1916, LAST EDITION, Image 13

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AMERICAN DOLLS, INVADE THE WORLD, EVEN
TO GERMANY'S DOLL CAPITAL
Scene in the "Beauty Room'.' of a Doll Factory,' Showing Heads Whose
- Shoulders Will Be Trimmed and Fitted to Doll Bodies.
: BY KENNETH: W.:PAYNE
' New York, Deb. 22. For the first
first time in history America has be
come the doll center of the world.
. Close to 10,000,000 dollies have
been made in this country this year.
So extraordinary has been, the
success of American doll manufac
turers in taking- ov.er the doll trade,
lost by Germatiy -and France on- ac
count of the -war, -thatwe are. -actually
going to- sell- dolls in Nurem
berg itSelf, the heart of Santa's Ger
man toyland, as soon as peace has
come to Europe.
The new, unbreakable, really
.truly life-like American dolly has
won the hearts of all American chil
dren, and this year marks a reyolu
tiohary epoch in the annals of doll
dom. Not since Papa Caveman first
fashioned a wooden dolly for his lit
tle cave daughter to play with has
there been so sudden a change in the
oil-making industry.

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