The Talking Board

As spiritualism had grown in america so to did frustration with how long it took to get any meaningful message out of the spirits. Calling out the alphabet and waiting for a knock at the right letter for example was incredibly boring. Charles canard of baltimore maryland acted on it in 1890 He pulled together a group of four other investors Elijah bond a local attorney and kernal washington boe a surveyor to start the canard novelty company to exclusively make And market these new talking boards. The board needed a name Bond's sister-in-law Helen peters came up with the name Dead Talker.