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Ouija Novelty Company
220 South Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland
909 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, Maryland
20 North High Street, Baltimore, Maryland
The Ouija Novelty Company was the result of Col. Washington Bowie's reorganization of the Kennard Novelty Company. The Maryland legislature passed the resolution to change the company's name on March 8th, 1892. Its first residence was 220 South Charles Street, the same address as the originally named Kennard Novelty Company. While Bowie waited for the legislature to pass the name change he made Ouija boards with labels that read both the Kennard and Ouija Novelty Companies. In 1892 Bowie moved the company to 909 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, Maryland and in 1894 the Ouija Novelty Company called 20 North High Street home.

William Fuld would remain in charge of day to day operations while Col. Washington Bowie and Harry Welles Rusk would step further into the background. On April 12, 1898, The Ouija Novelty Company assigned its assets, including the Elijah J. Bond patent and Ouija trademark, to Rusk and Bowie in the following proportions: 1/6 to Rusk and 5/6 to Bowie. Next Bowie halted the company's production. On July 18th 1898 the Ouija Novelty Company signed an agreement with William Fuld and his brother Isaac Fuld, trading as Isaac Fuld & Brother, to produce Ouija boards for three years. Bowie and Rusk continued to collect royalties.

Isaac Fuld & Brother would operate at the Ouija Novelty Company's old address of 20 North High Street until 1901. Unfortunately, both locations of company have been demolished.