See some Kotex first-campaign ads: general discussion and ad prototype - January 1921 - May 1921 - November 1921
See the Kotex stick tampon.
See more Kotex items: First ad (1921) - 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
CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could?
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Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación.

Newspaper ads for Kotex menstrual pads, 1920s (U.S.A.)
Nurse Buckland lived! Nurse Maxfield lived, probably. But Mary Pauline Callender?

Read the main discussion here.

I again thank the industrious and generous genealogy researcher for these ads!

See more old Kotex newspaper ads.
Below: At top are ads with Nurse Maxfield.
   
Above: Oakland [Cal.] Tribune, Aug. 15. 1935. Health Facts is the Kotex booklet Health Facts on Menstruation (1933 edition).
Above: Evening State Journal, Lincoln, Nebraska, March 29, 1938. Is she looking at a thermometer - hey, they check everything in the Feminine Hygiene Shop - or a tampon?
Below: More about Nurse Buckland. All are from the Appleton [Wisconsin] Post Crescent. Just below, June 7, 1922.
 
 Below: June 2, 1927
 
 Below: right, March 7, 1929
 Below: June 13, 1930
 
 Below: December 6, 1940
 
MORE  small early ads with named characters.
See some Kotex first-campaign ads: general discussion and ad prototype - January 1921 -
May 1921 - November 1921 - See more newspaper ads for Kotex and other items

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