TOURISTS MAGNIFY TRAVELS
American tourists who return to the States with an awe-aspiring array of foreign labels on their luggage may not have been at all the places indicated by the stickers. This fact was revealed in London recently by the discovery of men selling a wide variety of hotel labels. Label vendors operate near establishments handling the forwarding baggage and lie in wait for travellers seeking to magnify their trips into globe-trottings. Stickers are carried in a bulging portfolio which contains finely-coloured labels bearing the names of all the principal hotels in the tourist centres of the world.
The vendors are versatile linguists and unerring judbes of human nature, and rarely try to tempt the wrong persons. The prices are not high, but means clear profit, inasmuch as tho labels are probably furnished gratis by hotels for tho sake of advertising.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3493, 1 November 1926, Page 12
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142TOURISTS MAGNIFY TRAVELS Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3493, 1 November 1926, Page 12
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