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Before the old Pure Food & Drugs Act was passed in 1906, the label on Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound proclaimed the tonic “A Sure Cure for Prolapsus Uteri or Falling of the Womb, and . . . All ...

Booklet, with an image on front in blue and black of a seated woman holding a fan. Contents include descriptions of historical figures as well as advertisements and testimonials for Lydia Pinkham ...

LYDIA PINKHAM IS HER NAME (279 pp.)—Jean Burton—Farrar, Straus ($2.75). When the panic of 1873 hit Lynn, Mass., Real Estate Agent Isaac Pinkham and his 54-year-old wife Lydia found themselves flat ...

TWO almost legendary ladies, both of whom figured largely in the spiritual life of the nineties, have been discussed. in biographies recently. One is Madame Blavatsky; the other is Lydia Pinkham. The ...

Bill Caldwell is the retired librarian at The Joplin Globe. If you have a question you'D like him to research send an email to wcaldwell@joplinglobe.com or leave a message at 417-627-7261., The Joplin ...