There's a good deal of detail left out of that article...
The Bulldog version of Squeezers was a deck made to commemorate, of all things, anti-competitive practices in the playing card manufacturing business!
"Squeezers" was a general term seen in a lot of brand names, and it represented the fact that there was an index in the corner of the card that allowed you to squeeze them together in your hand. Without indices, you had to spread your cards out, examining the faces and taking a risk on revealing at least part of your hand.
New York Consolidated Card Company, the company that made Bee decks before it was bought by USPC, created their "Squeezers" playing cards with indices much like the ones used today, but much smaller. Andrew Dougherty, also of New York and creator of Tally Ho playing cards, came out with a competing product called "Triplicates", which used miniature pictures of the card faces in the corners instead - three images, hence Triplicates. In 1877, the companies hammered out an under-the-table deal whereby they split up the country and agreed to make their specially-indexed decks for sale only within their own territory. The Bulldog Squeezers back displays this visually, with a dog named "Squeezer" and a dog named "Trip" each chained to their respective dog houses and barking at each other under the moon, with the motto "There is a tie that binds us to our Homes" printed along the bottom. Dougherty eventually came out with "Indicators", indexed in the same manner as "Squeezers". The two companies merged in 1930 into Consolidated Dougherty, and in 1962 the companies were dissolved and absorbed into USPC.
New York Consolidated itself is also the creation of a conglomeration of companies in 1871: Lawrence & Cohen. Samuel Hart & Co. and John J. Levy. Lewis I. Cohen (of Lawrence & Cohen) started making cards in 1832, and made a huge innovation in playing cards when he created the first version of a CMYK printing press, allowing for four-color printing on playing cards in 1835, an innovation that changed the industry. Making color playing card designs was no longer a laborious, handmade process. Lots of history in there...
My information sources:
http://www.wopc.co.uk/usa/squeezers/squeezers-35.htmlhttp://www.wopc.co.uk/usa/dougherty/index.htmlhttp://www.wopc.co.uk/usa/nyccc/index.html