Lydia Pinkham and the age of patent medicines
The article recalls Lydia Pinkham as a landmark in early American advertising and medicine, noting her Lynn Massachusetts origin, the rise of her remedy through extensive newspaper ads, and her family’s role in marketing. It links the era to broader patent medicines and nostalgic product labels amid bygone practices.
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Lydia Pinkham
Lydia
Lynn
Mass
Pinkham
Remedy
Bogart Wild Hat Icon Across Tokyo Joe and More
The battered felt hat worn by Bogart since Treasure of the Sierra Madre remains his lucky symbol, set to appear in Columbia's Tokyo Joe. A giant 24 by 18 foot cricket is teased to herald tense Bogart Hayakawa scenes. Eleanor Parker shifted from worrying about Bogart to ranch sleep, while Miss Grant Takes Richmond coins doof er and doofer slang. Barbara Stanwyck tested with Lyle Bettger for The Lie, and Montgomery Clift tops Motion Picture Herald’s Star of Tomorrow poll with Kirk Douglas second and Betty Garrett third.
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Umphrey Bogart
Sierra
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Bia
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Ida
Vida
Glen Lamphier
Glen
Oscar Wilde
Vida Aba
Romantic Proposal Sparks Quiet Pact Between Lovers
Vida reads a lightly marked Wilde paragraph denying romance in proposals while seeking meaning. Glen recalls a pencil-checked line, then Vida pinpoints an O Briens short stories passage to underscore. Later Glen arrives, reads aloud, and speaks to Vida in urgent, clarified terms.
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Oscar Wilde
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A jumble of crossword clues across many numbered entries including Harvest vessel butts sandarac river to tree city country Nev. three storms topaz humming keel like part being on the right and more with many partial terms and foreign language fragments for solving anew.
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