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Hotel Vendome

The Hotel Vendome, Evansville, Indiana.

One claim to fame for the Hotel Vendome is that country recording artist Merle

Travis wrote his hit song

Sixteen Tons

while staying there.

The powder horn shape bottle cap lifter was a 1914 U. S. Design Patent by John

Sommer (No. D-45,678, April 28, 1914). In this example a corkscrew has been

added. The advertising is

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Vendome Hotel, Not the Newest but the Best,

Evansville, Ind.

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