China-themed Funeral Director Ads of Vermont!

I don’t know much about American funeral director advertising trends but hats off to the Vermont town of Brattleboro and the funeral directors Moran and Rohde, down there on Oak Street. They decided to run an ad in December 1929. Being a tad classier than those showing discount coffins, affordable all-in-one packages or an array of brass fittings to see you onto the the side Moran and Rohde went with a soothing image of the marble bridge at the Summer Palace in Peking while noting that another interesting bridge in China is to be found at Hangchow (Hangzhou). Well death is figuratively a crossing so….