Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-29
WHO SHE WAS.
SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF LYDIA E. PINKllAM
And True Story Of How the Vegetable Compound
HadIts Birth and How the "Panic Of 70" Caused
it to be Offered for Public Sale in Drug Stores.

restore the family fortuDe. They
argued that the medicine which was
so good for their woman friends and
neighbors was equally good for the
women of the whole world.
The Pinkhams had no, money, and
little credit. Their first laboratory
was tho kitchen, whore roots an9
herbs were stepped on the stove,
| gradually filling gross OF bottles.
Then came the question Of selling
lit, for always before they had given
lit away freely. They hired . Job
printer to run of Some pamphlets,
setting forth the merits Of the medi-
cine, now called Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, and these were
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 II
recommended it to others, and the do.
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 81
the enterprise were assured. until to-
day Lyiia E. Pinkham and her vege-
table Compound have become house.
hold words everywhere, and many.
tons Of roots and herbs are used annu.s
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 -
effectively as she could have done Il
herself.
During her long and eventful expo.
rience she was ever methodical In her
work and she was always careful topre-
serve arecord Of every case that came to
her attention. The case of every sick
woman who applied TO her for advice
and there were thousands
careful study, and the details, includ.
ing symptoms. treatment and results
were recorded for future references, and
to-day these records, together with
hundreds of thousands made since, are
available to sick women the world
over, and represent q vast collabora-
ton Of information regarding the
treatment of woman's ills, which for
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 carefully instructed
IN all her hard-won knowledge, and
for years she assisted her In her vast
correspondence.
To her hands naturally fell the
direction Of the work when its origina.a
tor passed away. For nearly twenty.
five years she has continued 1t, and
nothing in the work shows when the
first Lydia E. Pinkham dropped her
pen, and the present Mrs. Pinkham,
now the mother of a large family, took
it up With women assistants, some as
capable as herself. the present Mrs.
Pinkham continues this greatwork, and
probably from the office Of no other
person have SO many women been adj
vised how to regain health. Sick wo-
men, this advice is ours for Health"
freely given If you only write to ask
for it.
Such is the historyof Lydia 2. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound made
from simple roots and herbs; the one
great medicine for women's ailments,
and the fitting monument to the noble
woman whose nane IL bears.