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Read 10 years (1996-2006) of articles and Letters to Your MUM on this site.
Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación.

"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

See the Cardui booklet covers, ads & bottle label with ingredients; examination sheet; and The Twentieth Century Song Book. Midol pain reliever pills for menstruation: old tins (containers), old ads, old booklet (selections). More patent medicine on this site || Dr. Grace Feder Thompson's letter appealing for patients - Dr. Pierce's medicines - Dr. E. C. Abbey's The Sexual System and Its Derangements (1882) - Dr. Young's rectal dilators - Orange Blossom medicine - ad for Ergoapiol (1904), abortion substance - Lysol douche liquid ad, 1948 (U.S.A.) YOUR remedies for menstrual period pain and problems. See more remedies here.

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:

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]

NEXT cover inside front cover & page 1 pages 2-3 4-5 6-7 8-9 10-11 12-13 14-15 16-17 18-19 20-21 22-23 24-25 26-27 28-29 30-31 32-inside back cover back cover || All patent medicine on this site || Cardui's booklet covers, examination sheet, & Home Treatment for Women || 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.
Midol pain reliever pills for menstruation: old tins (pill containers), ads, booklet (selections)

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