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PARK AND CEMETERY 
SAFER THAN PALL BEARERS 
THE WELLMAN 
Casket Lowering Device 
This is the only adjustable, separable and 
the handsomest Device ever put on the 
market. Adjustable to any size grave. Will 
raise a casket as well as lower it. It is sep- 
arable and compact. Carried in 2 canvas 
sacks as shown in cut by the man at the 
right side of the man operating the device. 
SOLD BY ALL JOBBERS 
MANUFACTURED 
BY. 
WELLMAN & MATHEIS 
Office* 
^28 Summit Street 
Send for Booklet 
Toledo, Ohio 
lt*s No Secret. Everybody’s Talking ! ! 
about the popularity of the Ovid Casket boweriug- Device. Sales are increasing each year as shown in the following comparison. 
1898. Altogether new idea. Hard to sell. 
X899. Easier to convince the profession. 
1900. Customers begin to demand the use of device. 
1901. Absolute necessity. Good investment. 
1902. Telegraph, Telephone, Express. Hurry! Hurry! ! Hurry ! ! ! Funeral on hand. Nothing but 
the Ovid Lowering Device will do. We know it’s a beauty and are sure it is safe. 
Prof. W. P. Hohenschuh, 
Iowa City, Iowa. L e c t - 
urer, Demonstrator and 
Author. The most wide- 
ly known and popular 
Funeral Director in the 
United States. He says: 
“I have used the device 
over a hundred times and 
when I know of a good 
thing in our line I do not 
hesitate to say so.” 
He owns an Ovid Device 
National Express. 
Grand Trunk Freight 
Lines. 
London Office: 
The O.K.Buckhout Chem- 
ical Co., London, Eng. 
Canadian Office: 
Eckardt Casket Co., 
Toronto, Ont. 
Western Offices: 
California Casket Co., 
San Francisco, Cal. 
Oregon Casket Co., 
Portland, Oregon. 
Ovid, Micti. 
Snpt. Edward G. Carter, 
Oakwoods Cemetery, 
Chicago, 111. 
“We are greatly pleased 
with the device and re- 
ceive many expressions 
of approval from those 
who see it in operation.” 
Thirty-five prominent 
officials and business men 
in the city of Detroit own 
the Ovid Double Folding 
Device. It is used exclu- 
sively in that city. 
We manufacture 
nothing that we cannot 
recommend and guar- 
antee. 
No device is complete 
without our new improved 
Grave Lining. 
Phone or Telegraph 
at our expense. Send for 
catalogue and prices. 
Use either Phone, Bell 
100; Union 57. 
The abovefuneral scene shows our Device in actual work lowering a very heavy 
metallic casket (650 pounds) at the funeral of a late United States Senator, 
Portland, Maine. The cemetery officials own four Ovid Devices. 
Folding; CasKet Lowering Device WorKs, 
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