Word: lydia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...citizens suggested that only one claim remained to be made-"A Baby in Every Bottle." As the Pinkham company grew, however, it dropped some of the more extravagant claims and emphasized the value of the compound as a pain killer. Here, as millions of women users apparently still believe, Lydia seems to have had something...
...something of his mother's radicalism in him, ran for the Massachusetts legislature as candidate of the Greenback and Workingmen's Parties. When he spoke at a rally there were cheers for "the Pinkham Boys of Lynn," and, for good measure, another for the compound. Lydia wrote Dan's campaign literature, doggedly weaving puffs for her compound into Greenback propaganda. She urged votes for those who "fight against such an accursed financial system. Thousands of people who are paying for this mismanagement are today suffering from KIDNEY COMPLAINTS, DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION and could surely, speedily and permanently...
...while Lydia bore herself with the aplomb and dignity of one convinced that she had made a significant contribution to humanity. Never did she heed ridicule or doubt the efficacy of her home-brewed remedies-not even when they failed to save the consumptive...
Young Lady: "Oh, I've smashed my bottle of Lydia Pinkham...
...Water." Perhaps its crowning triumph came in 1944, when an Army chaplain took some snapshots of South Pacific natives just liberated from the Japanese. One picture showed a native woman in front of a thatched jungle hut, surrounded by her possessions-meager indeed, but among them one bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, the grandmotherly face on the label mild and benign as ever...