I'm not saying there was necessarily any connection, but many early tampons did originate on that shore of Lake Michigan at the beginning of the Depression. Even before Tampax started selling tampons with applicators in 1936, companies in Chicago were making Nunap, Moderne Women and fax , none of which had tube delivery systems, and all of which had suspicious ties to one another. Their products either bore the same street address, used the same ad copy, or showed the same illustration. Or combinations of all three.
Few things seem to have been patented or copyrighted.
There are no dates on the instructions or boxes. Spend 30 minutes of your time reading these documents and my clever dissection of what I call . . . It's a great cultural vignette of the America of 50 years ago, and much of the reasoning is valid today. The Tambrands Corporation donated the report and the ur tampons mentioned above to your MUM - a fantastic gift, part of a much larger one . Oh, also look at a series of covers of the menstrual education booklets published by Personal Products, Growing Up and Liking It , also donated by Tambrands.