See
Dr. Grace Feder Thompson's
letter appealing for patients; Dr. Pierce's
medical empire; Lydia
E. Pinkham's fabulously successful
vegetable compound & trinkets &
publications; Dr. E. C. Abbey's The Sexual System and
Its Derangements (1882); Dr. Young's rectal
dilators; Orange
Blossom medicine; ad for Ergoapiol (1904),
an abortion substance; and Lysol douche liquid
ad, 1948 (U.S.A.)
YOUR
remedies for
menstrual period pain and problems. See
more remedies here.
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"The 20th
Century Song Book"
(menstrual, kidney &
liver problems, constipation
& bowels, tiredness,
indigestion, colic, colds,
chills, fever, childbirth,
rheumatism, arthritis,
leuchorrhea, dizziness, pain,
headache, "female weakness,"
etc.)
Chattanooga Medicine Company,
U.S.A., 1904
Complete booklet, 32 pages plus
covers
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Below:
Pp. 30-31. Right-hand
page: The Degree of
Pocahontas is the women's
auxiliary of the Improved Order
of Red Men.
Responding to our "Huh?," Wikipedia
writes this about the IORM (I
added the red - appropriate, huh?
- emphasis):
The Improved Order of Red
Men traces its origin to
certain
secret patriotic societies
founded before the American
Revolution. They were
established to promote Liberty
and to defy the tyranny of the
English Crown. Among the early
groups were: The Sons
of Liberty, the Sons of
St. Tammany, and later the
Society
of Red Men.
Their rituals and regalia are
modeled after those used by Native
Americans. The
organization claimed a
membership of about half a
million in 1935, but has
declined to less than 38,000.
...
On December 16, 1773 a group of
men, all members of the Sons of
Liberty, met in Boston to
protest the tax on tea imposed
by England. When their protest
went unheeded, they disguised
themselves as Mohawk Indians,
proceeded to Boston harbor, and
dumped overboard 342 chests of
English tea [known to us as the
Boston Tea Party]. ...
In 1813, at historic Fort
Mifflin, near Philadelphia,
several of these groups came
together and formed one
organization known as the Society of Red
Men. The name was
changed to the Improved Order
of Red Men in Baltimore
in 1834. ...
[T]he "Improved Order of Red
Men" was later formed as a working man's
drinking group similar
to the Odd
Fellows fraternal
organization.[2]
In 1886 its membership
requirements were defined in the
same pseudo-Indian
phrasing as the rest of
the constitution:
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Sec. 1. No
person shall be entitled
to adoption into the Order
except a free
white male of
good moral character and
standing, of the full age
of twenty-one great
suns, who
believes in the existence
of a Great
Spirit, the
Creator and Preserver of
the Universe, and is
possessed of some known
reputable means of
support.[3]
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