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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS">Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>July 15,
1909</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=5>INDIVIDUAL DRINKING CUPS ON TRAINS</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>Norfolk and Western First Railroad in Section It
Traverses to Install This Innovation</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>CONTRACTS SIGNED WITH A NEW YORK
CONCERN</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Nickel-plated Devices Attached to Side of Water
Coolers Automatically Dispense Dainty White Paraffin Vessels</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=center>CANNOT BE REPLACED AFTER ONCE BEING DRAWN FORTH</DIV>
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<DIV align=left> The Norfolk & Western Railroad [sic]
Company will install individual paper drinking cups on all its regular passenger
car equipment this summer. Contracts with a New York cup concern were
signed several days ago.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> The Norfolk & Western road will use
automatic vendors for dispensing the cups. These small nickel-plated
devices are placed at one side of the water coolers. In each of them is
nested one hundred or more dainty white paraffin cups. The cups once drawn
forth and used cannot be replaced, but must be discarded or carried away.
They are in the exact form of a drinking glass, and are stiffened by a coat of
paraffin. The cups are manufactured by a semi-automatic process and are
absolutely sanitary when they reach the lips of the drinker.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> The Norfolk & Western will be the first
road in the states through which it runs to supply individual drinking cups to
its passengers, although the Baltimore & Ohio is said to be contemplating
the move. Several large railroads in the northeast are furnishing
individual cups. This move follows the action of the conference of the
state and provincial boards of health in Washington last month recommending all
railroads to abolish the dangerous common cups.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>Common drinking cups? Yuck!</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Script size=6>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>