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                                    Are you in
                                        the know? menstrual pad
                                        ad for girls, late 1940s-early
                                        1950s? Kimberly-Clark Corp.
                                        (Kotex tampons and menstrual
                                        napkins, belts and underpants),
                                        unknown magazine, U.S.A.
                                    
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                                    Below:
                                      Tampons were made for the beach
                                      (and riding bicycles, etc.) as you
                                      can see in the bottom panel. I
                                      wonder how many readers mumbled,
                                      "Suuuuure, uh, huh!" 
                                      I wonder if Coca-Cola
                                      had ties with Kotex; the second
                                      panel mentions it, and that's
                                      their bottle in the beach scene.
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