Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1906-03-29
SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF LYDIA E. pINKHAm
And True Story of How the Vegetable Compound
it to be Offered for Public Sale in Drug Stores

restore the family fortune IT,.
argued that the medicine which 10y 10y
SO good for their woman friends ass
neighbors was equally good for thu ~.
women of the whole world.
The Pinkhams had no MONEY ~,
little credit. Their first labor.t anu
was the kitchen, where roots and
herbs were stepped on the stove
gradually filling gross of bottles
Then came the question of sell;ns
it, for always before they had riveSS
it away freely. They hired ;oh
printer to run off some pamphlet.
setting forth the merits of the med;.
cine, now called Lydia E. Pinkham,s
Vegetable Compound, and these wers
distributed by the Pinkham sons in
Boston, New York, and Brooklyn.
The wonderful curative properties Of
the medicine were, to great extent
self-advertising, for whoever used 4
recommended it to others, and the de-.
mand gradually increased.
In 1877, by combined efforts the fam.
lily had saved enough money to com.
mence newspaper advertising and from
that time the growth and success Of
the. enterprise were assured, until to-
day Lydia E. Pinkham and her Vepe.
table Compound have become house.
hold words everywhere, and many
tons of roots and herbs are used annu.
ally in its manufacture.
Lydia E. Pinkham herself did not
live to see the great success of this
work. She passed to her reward years
ago, but not till she had provided
means for continuing her work as
effectively as she could have done it
herself.
During her long and eventful expe-
rience she was ever methodical in her
work and she was always careful topre'
serve a record of every case that came to
her attention. The case of every sick
woman who applied to her for advice
and there were thousands-received
careful study, and the details, includ-
ing. symptoms, treatment and results
were recorded for future reference, and
to-day these records, together with
hundreds of thousands made since, are
available to sick women the world
over, and represent vast collabora-
ton of information regarding Inc
treatment of woman's ills, which Tor
authenticity and accuracy can hardly
be equaled in any library in the
world.
With Lydia E. Pinkham worked her
daughter in law, the present MRS;
Pinkham. She was carefullyinstructeG
in all her hard-won knowledge, anu
for years she assisted her in her vas'
correspondence.
To her hands naturally fell tho
direction of the work when its orlglna'
tor passed away. For nearly twenty,
five years she has continued 1t, anu
nothing in the work shows when Ln0
first Lydia E. Pinkham dropped nef
pen, and the present Mrs. Plnknam
now the mother of large family 'ooa
1T up. With woman assistants, son9 o.
capable as herself, the present Mlo
Pinkham continues this greatwork ,ans
probably from the Office OF no o'nS'
person have so many women been az.
vised how to regain health. SICK IN, W.
men, this advice is "Yours for Healsr
freely given if you only write. 10 ''N
for it.
Such is the history of Lydia H. fi ads
hams Vegetable Compound m one
from simple roots and herbs; inc 10
great medicine for women's alllne ahls
and the fitting monument to the n0'
woman whose name it bears.