A NOVELTY IN TRAMWAY TICKETS.
At Quincey, Illinois, the tramcar companies have adopted a ticket which they hope will help tram conductors to identify passengers riding with transfer tickets to which they are not entitled. The new ticket is printed with four human faces—one one of a bearded man, one of a man with only a moustache, and one with a man clean-shaven, the fourth being that of a woman. When a conductor gives a transfer ticket he punches out the ‘face most nearly resembling the person to whom he gives it. Thus a full-bearded man presenting a ticket punched through any of the other three faces would be known to be a fraud, ■
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Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 39, 14 May 1907, Page 5
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114A NOVELTY IN TRAMWAY TICKETS. Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 39, 14 May 1907, Page 5
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