Word: pinkhams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snow on top. The trails have not been broken but have an unbreakable crust with three inches of corn snow. Laconia, N. H.: Gunstock trails are fairly well covered but unbroken for the most part. Open slopes have abundance of snow but inclined to be sticky. Near melting temperatures. Pinkham Notch, N. H.: Washington and Wildeat trails partially broken. Thirteen inches at summit and 11 1-2 inches average of wet snow over hard crust provides good skiing, not too fast. Stowe, Vt.: Continued snowfall makes good skiing on Mt. Mansfield. The continuance of tonight's rain makes prophesy difficult...
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...
Last week a court fight was in progress in Massachusetts to determine after 36 years of Pinkham family squabbling whether control of the business, which still nets $840,000 a year, would remain with the three rich grandsons of Mrs. Pinkham or with her richer daughter and two granddaughters. Each branch of the family has an equal share of the original stock. Few months ago the grandsons, President Arthur Pinkham, Vice President Daniel Pinkham and Secretary Charles Pinkham, got a temporary court order restraining the distaff branch of the family from "interfering in the conduct of the business." Spry...
...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...
From Mt. Washington, which is the only place in New England that might possibly have favorable ski conditions, word comes that six inches of warn rain fell in Pinkham Notch last night to bring the total rainfall in the last week to well over 16 inches. Of the four feet of snow there when the thaw began, two inches are all that remain...