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Miss Kelly selling Votes for Women in central London, July 1911. She is carrying a purple, white and green canvas satchel, which held forty-eight copies of the newspaper, and slung across her chest is a poster advertsing the editorial comment of that issue. The comment in question described the WSPU's new by-election policy which was guaranteed to cause maximum disruption to any Liberal candidate who had to fight for a parliamentary seat. In 1910 a competition had been organized to increase the sales of the newspaper. The two first prizes of suffragette bicycles, painted purple, white and green, went to the two women who sold the most copies and who got the most new subscribers.