Reading Lydia Pinkham and patent medicine nostalgia
A memoir style column recalls Lydia Pinkham and other late 19th and early 20th century patent medicines, advertising legends, and the culture of medical quackery. It notes Pinkham as a pioneer in women’s rights advertising, describes her family’s role, and recounts the era’s dependence on herbal remedies and tonic products. It also touches on oysters and a petty crime anecdote about a Japanese industrialist jailed for pocket picking to meet payroll.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia Pinkham
Lydia
Lynn
Mass
Bogart’s Luckiest Hat and New Movie Buzz
A collage of film gossip notes on Humphrey Bogart keeping his battered hat as a luck symbol from Treasure of Sierra Madre and upcoming Tokyo Joe. It mentions oversized cricket scenes, Eleanor Parker, Lucille Ball coining doodle and doofer terms, Barbara Stanwyck testing with Lyle Bettger, and Montgomery Clift and Kirk Douglas cited in Motion Picture Herald ranking as rising stars.
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Umphrey Bogart
Sierra Madre
Colum
Bia
Bogart
Hayakawa
Mr. Dreds
Terry Moore
Glenn Ford
Columbia
Miss Grant
Richmond
Lucille Ball
Montgomery Clift
Red River
The
Heiress
Motion Picture Herald
Kirk Douglas
Betty S Garrett
Vida and Glen Lamphier Love Plot Through Fiction
The Fiction Corner presents Vida, an 18 year old reader who uses romance novels to disguise her plain looks and win Glen Lamphier. By age 22 she believes she has him within reach but senses his waning interest as she relies on clever tactics over genuine appeal. Week later, she sits by the fire reflecting on her efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ida
Vida
Glen Lamphier
Gareey
Glen
Oscar Wilde
Vida Aban
Romantic Proposal Paradox Sparks Vida’s Realization
Vida reads a pencil-marked Oscar Wilde paragraph and feels her pulse rise as she debates romance and certainty in proposing. Gwea recalls marking the text, recognizing her deep faith in books. Vida moves toward the book head in uneasy acquiescence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oscar Wilde
Dle
Vida
Gwea
Passage in the Fireplace Book Leads to Quiet Reunion
Vida discovers a marked passage in a shelf of O Brien short stories behind the fireplace. Glen arrives after an hour, reads aloud a paragraph from the same volume, then welcomes Vida with eager, unintelligible but clear talk about a pressing message he cannot delay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O'Brien
Glen
Vida
Tched
CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS AND DOWN CLUES COMPOUNDED
Puzzle clue text mixed with misprints covers across and down entries for a varied grid. Names numbers and places are garbled but hint at a standard puzzle with clues for harvests, storms, birds, and measurements across multiple lines.
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America
Peter
Tobacco By-Products & Chariie Corporation
Richmond, Viena
Yodora
Lydia B Pinkham
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Doan
Dean
Pinkham’s
H. J. Phillips
Jean Burton
Mr. Munyon
Father Duffy
Bigelow & Healy
Alcott
Payne
Sloane
Iment
Mather
Glover
Winchester
Grace Null Crowell
Boston
Remedy
New England
Florida
Essex
Conn
Porto Rico Bay
Neasay
Inez Germard
Eleanor Parker
Warners
Barbara Stanwyck
Lyle Bertger
Paramount
Humphrey Bogart
the Fiction Corner
City N.Y
Atte
Humble
British Airforce
Ina
Eagle
Dabbr
Beverage
Chicare
Wert
Siri Pringe Albert
Prince Alberti
Ae Han
Wernuids Tobacco ,O
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