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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1915
Page
13
Merchants in Mobile distribute Universal Travel Slips with every purchase as a customer appreciation program. Collect slips to fund trips to mountains seas or major cities nationwide and ride street cars without spending money.
A terse note indicates a retailer or firm named Universal offers liberal cash discounts to customers paying with cash, contrasting with standard terms. The statement implies a strategy to attract cash transactions by reducing price or extending favorable terms for immediate payment.
The article promotes mountain and sea shore getaways funded by Travel Slips. Readers can redeem slips through banks in Mobile Eutaw Ozark Birmingham and elsewhere to cover rail travel and streetcar fares. Each book costs $1 and covers 22 rides, with slips redeemable at local progressive merchants and banks for vacation access and investment savings.
The contest panel lists winners who will take vacation trips to preferred resorts without paying rail or steamship fares. The note highlights Travel Slips as the source of free travel benefits for these prize recipients.
A company says Universal Travel Slips reduce clerical expense in handling accounts and lower business costs. The slips are issued to customers as a dividend earned from this economy.
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