Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1914 — METAL BOX HOLDS TICKETS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

METAL BOX HOLDS TICKETS

Made So That Cardboards Come Out Singly as the Spring Lid Is Drawn Out.

An Ingenious form of ticket-holder conies from Canada. It is a little metal box with a spring lid, and as the lid is drawn out a ticket comes with IL The box is made about the size of the strip tickets sold on railroads, and this makes it large enough to hold trolley tickets, where citizens are fortunate

enough to have this form of fare. One end of the receptacle is cut a little low and leaves a recess between its top and the lid,.through which one of the little cardboards can slip. The pressure of the thumb opens the lid and brings out a ticket at the same time. This box keeps tickets always in good condition and prevents them from getting bent and torn in the pocket. There is no-particular reason for keeping them in good shape, but every man likes to do eo. though most women are correspondingly careless about it -W' ' •