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Lydia Pinkham and Other Patent Medicines Remembered
A nostalgic column recalls Lydia Pinkham as a Lynn Mass figure in early women's rights and medicine advertising. It notes her remedies and the era's general practice of patent medicines alongside other brands like Kickapoo Indian Sagwa Payne's Celery Compound and Sloane's Liniment. It weaves memories of era advertising and a 1949 oyster season with light social observation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean Burton
Lydia Pinkham
Mr. M Munyon
Father Duffy
Bigelow & Healy
Alcott
Payne
Sloane
Lynn
Mass
New England
Florida
Essex
Porto Rico Bay