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“There’s a baby in every bottle. So the old quotation ran. But the Federal Trade Commission … still insists you’ll need a man.” – Unknown The old wooden box was nailed tight against a stud, high on ...
In a Massachusetts cellar in 1873, Lydia Pinkham first brewed the elixir that would make her famous. The dirt-brown liquid, made from herbs including black cohosh and pleurisy root, contained ...
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 ...
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF LYDIA E. PINKHAM—Robert Collyer Washburn—:Putnam ($3.50).* “COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE.” “The feeling of utter listlessness, lack of energy, desire to be alone, or ...
Q I bought a sewing box and contents at an estate sale recently. In it were things I couldn’t identify a name or use for. This item is 2 ½ inches long. It is in two parts like a clamshell, and I think ...