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Unrivaled by Father John or the Smith Brothers, Lydia Pinkham was for years the most vivid personality in the U. S. medicine chest. Lydia Estes Pinkham died in Lynn, Mass, in 1883. Her prim pictures, however, remained on every package of tier famed Vegetable Compound, and clerks went on answering in her name 100,000 letters per year from women who thought the compound relieved their periodic ills. When the late Edward W. Bok started his crusade against patent medicines, he debunked the post-mortem Pinkham correspondence by publishing in his Ladies' Home Journal a picture of Mrs. Pinkham...
Pinkham management has been cleft almost from the beginning, but the family has never before brought its differences to law. According to Lynn legend, Daughter Aroline got a letter in 1879 from her brother Charles, first president of the company, expressing the wish that when he died his wife should be made president. When Charles died in 1900, it was not his wife but Daughter Aroline's husband, William H. Gove, who was chosen. After 20 years, at Cove's death in 1920, the Pinkhams finally got the offices they wanted. But Mrs. Gove as treasurer...
HARVARD PRINCETON Adzigian, 3b lf, Brown Prouty, lf cf, Nevitt Bilodeau, ss rf, Rice Owen, 2b 3b, French (Capt.) Gibbs, cf 2b, Sandbach Colwell, 1b ss, Lynn Tittmann, rf 1b, Fallon Maguire (Capt.) c. c, Johnson Ingalls, p p, Morris Starting time: 3 o'clock, Soldiers Field...
...major winners suggested that sweepstakes are currently attracting a more substantial but less colorful clientele. Miss Martha Wellington, secretary to the advertising manager of The New Yorker, Mrs. Fannie Lebowitz of Albany, N. Y., a 71-year-old Salem, Mass, bachelor named Amos Strout, a firm of two Lynn, Mass, telephone operators, and a Hollywood billing clerk each won $150,000 with tickets on Reynoldstown. Mrs. Lebowitz said she planned to "make everybody happy." The rest said nothing and Secretary Wellington even ducked photographers...
...time to see who is going to fight whom in an impending war. There are a pair of honeymooning Britons, a German scientist, a French Communist, all of whom give every evidence of being men of good will. There are also a French armament maker, his Russian mistress, Irene (Lynn Fontanne), a troupe of U. S. showgirls whom she calls "obvious little harlots," and their blatant but philosophical master of ceremonies, Harry Van (Alfred Lunt). When a nearby Italian airport provides the required military "incident" by sending planes off to destroy Paris, when England squares off against Germany, France against...