This has absolutely no railroad content, but I’m including it here because it is the only evidence we have that the Hruska sisters’ trip to Europe included time on the continent instead of just in Britain. This brochure includes 11 photos of Brussels and the Plaza Hotel plus a single paragraph of text repeated five times: once each in French, English, German, Dutch, and Spanish.

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“The Hotel Plaza, the most recently constructed, situated in the center of Brussels, is the only luxury hotel of the city,” says the paragraph. “Recently” meant 24 years before, as the hotel opened its doors in 1930. It remained in business until 1976, then shut down for two decades. After an extensive remodeling, it reopened in 1996. Today, it is quite busy and claims to be “one of the last independent hotels in Brussels.”

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This rate list accompanied the booklet. It says that single rooms ranged from 200 to 350 (about $42 to $75 today) francs while double rooms were 300 to 500 francs ($63 to $105 today). Breakfast was 35 francs (about $7.50) while lunch or dinner was 125 francs (about $26.25). All three meals could be included with the room for 250 francs ($53.50).