Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-10-12
WHO SHE WAS
SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF LYDIA E. PINKHAM
And True Story of How the Vegetable COMPOUND
Had Its Birth and How the "Panic of '73" Causpd
it to be Offered for Public Sale i'm Drug Stores

restore the family fortune, r,.-
argued that the medicine which icy
so good for their woman friends way
neighbors was equally good for tba
women of the whole world. '
The Pinkhams had no money o.,
little credit. Their first Iaborat rnu
was the kitchen, where roots any
herbs were stepped on the stor nS
gradually filing a gross of bottle,
Then came the question of seITus
it, for always before they had giveSS
it away freely. They hired a ioS
printer to run off some pamnbjet'
setting forth the merits of the med'
cine, now called Lydia E. Pinkbams
Vegetable Compound, and these vera
distributed by the Pinkham sons IN
Boston, New York, and BROOKLYN
The wonderful curative propertiesn
the medicine were, to great extent
self-advertising for whoever used /
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 Vege.
table Compound have become house.
hold words everywhere, and mauv
tons of roots and herbs are used anuu.
ally in it's 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 1t I
herself.
During her long and eventful expe.
rience she was ever methodical in her
work and she was always careful tope'
serve record of every case thatcam TO I
her attention. The case of every sick {
woman who applied to her for advice
and there were thousands-receivedH
careful study, and the details. includ
ing symptoms, treatment and results 1
were recorded for future reference and I
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 the
treatment of woman's ills, which for s
authenticity and accuracy can hardy
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 E
for years she assisted her in her vast
correspondence.
To her hands naturally fell the
direction of the work when its origna
tor passed away. For nearly twenty.
five years she has continued it. and
nothing in the work shows when the
first Lydia E. Pinkham dropped. her
pen, and the present Mrs. Plnkhan'
now the mother of large family, TOOK
it up. With women assistants, SomeS
capable as herself, the present Mrs.
Pinkham continues this greatwork,aa ana
probably from the Office of no othG
person have so many women been 40
vised how to regain health. Sick w, Wr
men, this advice is "Yours for Health
freely given if you only write to ask
for it.
Such is the history of Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Com0ound maui
from simple roots and herbs; the ON
great medicine for women's ailmenlsa'
and the fitting monument to the no"'
woman whose name it bears.