Women Who Brave Death For Social Honors, 1905

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Feb 15th 1905, courtesy of the Brockville Museum, Ontario.
Scanned by John Mack.
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Lydia Estes Pinkham (1819 –1883) was an iconic concocter and shrewd marketer of a commercially successful herbal-alcoholic "women's tonic" meant to relieve menstrual and menopausal pains.

Lydia and her "medicinal compound" are memorialized in the folk song "The Ballad of Lydia Pinkham," also known as "Lily the Pink". A version of Lily the Pink was a number one hit in the United Kingdom in 1968/69. The Irish Rovers also released the song, in 1969, as a single it reached the Top 30 on the US Billboard charts.

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