Phantom Kotex ad, with ad for
                            Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday, a menarche
                            booklet, 1932 
                            Kotex doesn't show! #2: June 1932 - ad,
                            1932, for Kotex and
                              Kleenex - Phantom Kotex, July, 1932 -
                            picture in ad of Mary
                              Pauline Callender, author of the
                            Marjorie May booklets - 1932, Phantom Kotex -
                            1933, Phantom Kotex
                            - box and pads,
                            1930s? - wrapped
                              Kotex pad for West Disinfecting
                            Company dispenser (mid 1930s)
                          
                          Harry
                                Finley created the images.
                          What did women do about menstruation in
                            the past?
                          
                          
                          
                          
                              
                              
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                            MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S
                              HEALTH  
                          
                           "Cooperation"
                              Excerpts (U.S.A., 1931-34) 
                              Publication for Kimberly-Clark
                            employees during the Great
                              Depression  
                            Kotex sanitary napkins, menstrual belts, 
                            Kleenex, puberty booklets for girls, Fibs
                            menstrual tampons  
                             
                            
                             
                            
                             
                            
                              
                                
                                  
                                    Below:
                                      Office and factory life was robust at
                                      K-C!
                                    About "The
                                        Office Flapper Sez"
                                      (under Kotex Chicago at top): The
                                      funniest recent flapper mention
                                      (Feb. 6, 2009)  
                                      I think is in Andrew Leonard's
                                      heading "When
flappers
                                        roamed the earth" in "How
                                      the World Works" 
                                      at
                                      http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/index.html
                                    Flapper:
                                      A young woman, especially one in
                                      the 1920s who showed disdain for
                                      conventional dress and behavior. 
                                      (from
                                      http://www.answers.com/topic/flapper)
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