Possibly the first American disposable
pad: Lister's Towels
Early Midol ads for headache,
hiccups, and PMS.
See a prototype of the first Kotex
ad.
See more Kotex items: Ad 1928 (Sears
and Roebuck catalog) - Marjorie May's Twelfth
Birthday (booklet for girls, 1928, Australian edition; there are many
links here to Kotex items) - 1920s booklet in Spanish showing disposal
method - box from about 1969 - Preparing
for Womanhood (1920s, booklet for girls) - "Are you in the know?" ads (Kotex) (1949)(1953)(1964)(booklet, 1956) - See
more ads on the Ads for Teenagers main page
 
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Early ads for American menstrual pads, belts,
aprons, diapers
Gotham & Venus compressed sanitary napkins, Pen-Co-Nap, Kleinert, Merco,
Sorbit diapers
Newspapers, U.S.A.
I thank the industrious retired teacher and genealogist for sending
these scans and many others!
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Below: from the Trenton [New Jersey] Evening
Times, Aug. 14, 1916. I suspect that the Gotham and Venus pads were of paper
to be burned or tossed or flushed; washing cloth pads was a problem for
women traveling. See an actual later Venus compressed
pad, maybe the same one. See a sanitary apron.
See some menstrual belts.
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Below: ad from Appleton [Wisconsin] Post
Crescent, Feb. 11, 1929.
J.C. Penney, which operates today, sold its own brand of menstrual pads
just as Sears and probably many other stores did.
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Below: from the Fort Wayne [Indiana] News,
Aug. 30, 1912. If there can be paper diapers, paper
menstrual pads can't be far behind, which of course was the case.
See sanitary bloomers possibly based on children's
diapers.
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Below: from the Oakland [California] Tribune,
May 22, 1919.
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See possibly the first American disposable pad:
Lister's Towels -
Early Modess ads: newspaper, 1928,
1931,"Modess . . .
. because" ads, the French Modess,
and the German "Freedom" (Kimberly-Clark)
for teens. Early Midol ads for headache, hiccups,
and PMS. Other Modess ads: another from 1928, 1931,"Modess . . . . because" ads, the French
Modess,
and the German "Freedom" (Kimberly-Clark)
for teens.
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