See other marketing devices: B-ettes tampon counter-display box and proposal to dealers, with contract; (U.S.A., donated by Procter & Gamble, 2001); "Your Image is Your Fortune!," Modess sales-hints booklet for stores, 1967 (U.S.A., donated by Tambrands, 1997)
See a similar examination sheet for the patent medicine Cardui.
See Cardui patent medicine, Dr. Pierce's empire, and Lydia Pinkham's Compound
Other amazing women: Nellie Bly, Lydia Pinkham, Dr. Marie Stopes
See Cardui patent medicine, Lydia Pinkham's Compound, Dr. Pierce's medicine and Orange Blossum medicine.
Historical remedies for menstrual period pain and problems. See more remedies here.
See modern home remedies here.
Handwritten Pinkham letter to a sick woman, Typed letter to a Canadian (1918), Ad from the Salt Lake Weekly Herald (1881) for Mrs. Pinkham, trade cards (flowers, girl with cat), post card of Stanford University, a bottle for Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, mending kit, booklet Stretching Your Dollar, bottles for her Blood Medicine and (just plain) Medicine, Home Talks, Private Text-Book Upon Ailments Peculiar to Women, Fruits and Candies booklet, and a modern bottle, box and instructions for her Tablets.
A discussion of the letter testimonials, and their authenticity, of the Pinkham company (in a discussion of a Pursettes ad with a letter testimonial)
See two letters to MUM about the ingredients of her Compound, and one about the lyrics of an English pop song, Lily the Pink, about her.
Other amazing women: Nelli Bly, Dr. Marie Stopes, Dr. Grace Feder Thompson
DIRECTORY of all topics (See also the SEARCH ENGINE, bottom of page.)
CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could?
Some MUM site links: homepage | LIST OF ALL TOPICS | MUM address & What does MUM mean? | e-mail the museum | privacy on this site | who runs this museum?? |
Amazing women! | the art of menstruation | artists (non-menstrual) | asbestos | belts | bidets | founder bio | Bly, Nellie | MUM board | books: menstruation and menopause (and reviews) | cats | company booklets for girls (mostly) directory | contraception and religion | costumes | menstrual cups | cup usage | dispensers | douches, pain, sprays | essay directory | extraction | facts-of-life booklets for girls | famous women in menstrual hygiene ads | FAQ | founder/director biography | gynecological topics by Dr. Soucasaux | humor | huts | links | masturbation | media coverage of MUM | menarche booklets for girls and parents | miscellaneous | museum future | Norwegian menstruation exhibit | odor | olor | pad directory | patent medicine | poetry directory | products, current | puberty booklets for girls and parents | religion | Religión y menstruación | your remedies for menstrual discomfort | menstrual products safety | science | Seguridad de productos para la menstruación | shame | slapping, menstrual | sponges | synchrony | tampon directory | early tampons | teen ads directory | tour of the former museum (video) | underpants & panties directory | videos, films directory | Words and expressions about menstruation | Would you stop menstruating if you could? | What did women do about menstruation in the past? | washable pads
Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación.

Ad-writing contest for menstrual pads, United Kingdom, 1990
The rules

The English magazine Company sponsored a contest to write an advertisement for Dr White's Shapes, - the abbreviation for doctor gets no punctuation in British English - a menstrual pad. In July 1990 it published the results, the first page of which I print below; the second, showing the best submissions, is here.

When I find it in the MUM files, I will put on this site the ad with 3-D glasses the article mentions in the second column (I found it!)

By the way, both a German and an American disposable pad were available in the last century, contrary to what we read in the second column.

Look at a funny Dr White tampon ad.

The best ads!

Large file, long down-load time, because I want you to be able to read the article and ads.

The BEST contest ads! OR B-ettes tampon counter-display box and proposal to dealers, with contract;
"Your Image is Your Fortune!," Modess sales-hints booklet for stores

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