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To all whom it may concern: Be it known that we, Edmund De Moulin and Ulysses S. De Moulin, citizens of the United States, residing in Greenville, in the county of Bond and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Initiating Device, of which the following is a specification.
This invention relates to devices employed initiating applicants for membership in secret organizations, etc.; and it has for its object to provide a device of this class which is in the nature of a spanking machine, the construction being such that the applicant will be struck with a paddle and at the same time will be given an electric shock, the mechanism being thrown into operation by the applicant himself.
Full patent # 654,611. - July 31, 1900.
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