The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-10-12
WHO SHE WAS
SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF LYDIA E. pNKHAn
And True Story of How the Vegetable Compound
HadIts Birth and How the "Panic of 49, Caused
it to be Offered for Public Sale in Drug Stores

restore the family fortune. Tho.
argued that the medicine which , Ivy
50 good for their woman friends an5
neighbors was equally good for the
women of the whole world. WY
The Pinkhams had no money a.,
little credit Their first laborst n-u
was the kitchen, where roots a.
herbs were stepped on the sto1a
gradually filling a gross of bottles
Then came the question Of sejInr
it, for always before they had pivrnn
it away freely. They hired a ioh
printer to run off some pamnhieta
setting forth the merits of the med
cine, now called Lydia E. Pinkbar's
Vegetable Compound, and these wrre
distributed by the pinllham sons in
Boston, New York. and BROOKLYN,
The wonderful curative nronertjes ..
the medicine We're, TO great extent
self-advertising, for whoever usc5 i
recommended it to others, aud the de-.
mand gradually increased.
In 1917, by combined efforts the fam.
lily had saved enough money 10 com.
m"nce newspaper advertising and from
that time the growth and success OF
the enterprise were assured, until 20.
DAY Lydia T. Pinkham and her Veae.
table Compound have become house.
hold words everywhere, and MANY
tons Of roots and herbs are used ANN.
ally in its manufacture.
Lydia E. Pinkham herself did not
live to see the great success Of this
work. She passed to her reward wears
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-
ricuce she was ever mcthodical in her
work and She was always careful top
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-receiye
careful study, and the details, inctud-
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 a vast collabora-
ton of information regarding the
treatment of woman's ills, which for
authenticity and accuracy can hardly
be equaIed in any library in the
world.
With Lydia T.. Pinkham worked her
daughter in law, the present Mrs
Pinkham. She was care fully instructed
in all her haId-won knowledge, and
for years she assisted her in her vast
rDrrpS pOpIpppp
To her hands naturally fell the
direction of the work when its origins-
tor passed away. For nearly twenty
five years She has continued it, and
nothing in the work shows when the
first lydia L. Pinllham dropped her
pen, and the present Mrs. Pinkham
now the mother Of a large family, took
il up With women assistants, some as
capable as herself, the present Mrs
Pinkham continues this great work and
probably from the Office of no other
person have 50 many women been ad.
vjscd how to regain health. Sick wo-
men, this advice is yours for Health
freely given if you only write to ask
for it.
Such IS the history of Lydia Z. 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 name il bears.