Perforating paddle. This unusual wooden paddle with a nail-studded leather face was used by the Board of Health in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1899 to perforate mail in preparation for fumigation as a precaution against yellow fever, mistakenly believed at that time to be caused by germs. Perforating paddle

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