Word: pinkhams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a Portland, Maine court decision brought temporary relief to the family of famed Medicine Woman Lydia Estes Pinkham. The court dismissed her granddaughter's bill in equity seeking to place the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. in receivership...
When Isaac Pinkham lost his shirt in the 1873 panic, his wife began selling a mysterious, home-brewed potion she had long given away to distraught friends. The potion soon overflowed into a national panacea for all kinds of female complaints. After Lydia died, Aroline Pinkham Gove and Charles Pinkham, each with a 50% share of their mother's business, kept her face enshrined on every package, signed her name in answering 100,000 letters a year from grateful or suffering women. By last year Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound had netted Lydia and descendants well over...
...Lydia's face and name could not keep the descendants at peace. Upon the death of President Charles Pinkham, Aroline made it clear that the Goves would now run the medicine show. Finding himself patriarch of the Pinkham branch while but a sophomore at Brown, Arthur Pinkham, son of Charles, was hopping...
...Fair 10 Packed snow Littleton, N.H. Fair Poor 9 Monadnock Region, N.H. Cloudy Fair 7 Icy crust Newfound Region, N.H. Cloudy Good 22 Corn Surface North Conway, N.H. Cloudy Fair 10 Unbreakable crust North Woodstock, N.H. Cloudy Fair 10 Packed Snow Ossipee Region N.H. Cloudy Poor 10 Frozen granular Pinkham Notch N.H. Cloudy Poor 23 Breakable Crust Plymouth, N.H. Cloudy Poor 8 granular surface Quebec (Lac Reauport) Fair Good 46 Powder Stowe (Mt. Mausfield) Vt. Fair Good 29 to 62 Powder Sunapee Region, N.H. Cloudy Poor 17 Hardcrust Tamworth Region, N.H. Cloudy Poor 10 Frozen snow Waterville Valley, N.H. Cloudy...
...enthusiasts are finding a new and promising skiing territory this winter in Western Massachusetts' "Pioneer Valley." This region offers, besides the interest of a young and developing field, a nearby location by train or car, an agreeable surprise to those who found Pinkham Notch a far cry. It is possible to go for a day or stay over in one of the neighborhood's many inns or hotels. The season has been in full swing since a nine inch snowfall November...