Description:
Color trade card showing a little boy with a fishing pole hanging over an alligator for Merrick Thread Co.
Caption on front: Merrick Thread Co. "Fooled dis time, cully. dis cotton aint gwine to break."
Caption on back: Buy Merrick Threat Cos... For Sale By G. Decker, Cash Dry Goods House No. 40 East Main Street, Battle Creek, Mich.