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In November 1923, an entourage accompanying Mary Bartelme to her Circuit Court chambers bore witness to a significant occasion. “At the door, she was caught in a swirl of employees, flower baskets, after election cigar smoke and soprano congratulations,” the Tribune’s Genevieve Forbes reported. “The procession of club women, judges, scrub women and dependent girls filed past. And Miss Bartelme . ....