See more Kotex items: First ad for the
pad (1921; scroll to bottom of page) - pad ad,
1928 (Sears and Roebuck
catalog) - Lee
Miller pad ads (first real person in a
menstrual hygiene ad, 1928) - Marjorie May's Twelfth
Birthday (booklet for girls, 1928,
Australian edition; there are many links here to
Kotex items) - Preparing
for Womanhood (1920s, booklet for girls;
Australian edition) - 1920s booklet in Spanish
showing pad disposal
method - box
from about 1969 - "Are you in the know?"
ads for pads (1949)(1953)(1964)(booklet, 1956) - See
more ads on the Ads for
Teenagers main page
See a Modess True or
False? ad in The American Girl magazine,
January 1947, and actress Carol
Lynley in "How Shall I Tell My Daughter"
booklet ad (1955) - Modess
. . . . because ads (many dates).
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Newspaper ads for Fibs, the first
successful Kotex menstrual tampon
Read about the life
and death of this tampon.
See the actual tampon
and more ads here
and here.
A genealogy researcher kindly
sent the scans, some of many of
tampons from newspapers. She wants
to remain anonymous.
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Below:
May 23, 1940, Mansfield [Ohio] News
Journal
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Below:
April 23, 1940, Oakland Tribune,
California
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Below:
Dec. 2, 1950, Joplin Globe, Missouri
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Below:
Sept. 17, 1959, Tri City Herald,
Pasco, Washington
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See Cashay and Dale tampons, and very
early Tampax and fax.
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