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Under the title of EDUCATION and the subtitle of "Vegetable" a rather lengthy discourse on Lydia Pinkham and her Compound is presented by TIME for Sept. 20 [p. 20]. I fail to gather the connection to Education and as to the Vegetable, I refer you to the series of articles by Samuel Hopkins Adams in Collier's under the title of "The Great American Fraud." Also to the booklet entitled "Female Weakness Cures" as published by The American Medical Assn...
...What caused Lydia E. Pinkham to sell a compound...
...California the next week ... by airplane . . . stopping overnight in Cleveland, Chicago, Omaha, Wichita, Cheyenne, Salt Lake City ... all expenses paid . . . $50 spending money . . . See America First . . . glorious . . . winner . . . congratulations . . . 12,000 contestants . . . and a return ticket . . . who? . . . Cove? Kove? GOVE, Gove, GOVE? Lydia Pinkham? ... At last Helen Park remembered. She had seen a notice that, for the best 250-word letter by a New England college student or graduate telling why he or she wanted to visit California, a free trip by air would be given by a Miss Lydia Pinkham Gove of Salem, Mass. Helen Park could remember nothing...
That night in the waitresses' dormitory at The Balsams they discussed the miracle far into the night. Who on earth was Lydia Pinkham Gove? Why should she be handing out free airplane trips to California? One alert girl remembered reading in the newspapers that a Lydia Pinkham Gove of Salem, Mass., had just flown home from California with the pastor's assistant of the Second Unitarian Church of Salem, one James Luther Adams. Both passengers had been wildly enthusiastic about their jaunt. The newspaper, a local sheet, had called it "an important epoch in aviation history...
...still, who was Lydia Pinkham Gove? Another girl spoke up. Once her mother had had woman's trouble, couldn't do the housework, father had got blue and grumpy. Mother had read an advertisement in the farm journal, got some big bottles and pretty soon been all right again. On the bottle it had said, "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." Nice tasting stuff, too. Lots of women swore...