Demoulin Brothers and Company (Greenville, Ill.) · The Company · leaf 46
page XXin back of catalog. 6730 Deceptive Brand, made of wood and rubber. The rubber bulb isinflated with smoke and the branding end is inked on the pad.The bulb is pressed when the brand is applied, causing the smoketo issue from the branding end. The impression made by the ink is an exact… … Just think of a candidate being branded with a hot(?) electric brand and when the shockis supposed to have killed him, to drop him, table and all, into an old well, end over end,and then bring him up uninjured. This beats riding the fuzzie-backed goat or sliding downthe cellar steps. See…
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