Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1891 — False Reports. [ARTICLE]

False Reports.

The story having been circulated that Bydia E. Pinkham was a mythical personage whose name had been widely used for advertising purposes, a Boston newspaper man not long ago had an Interview with Mr. Charles H. Pinkham of the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company of Lyira, Mass., eldest son of the famous woman. Mr. Pinkham called attention to photographs of his mother and her children, and explained the rise and progresa of her wonderful business. He told how, when his father was broken do«n in health, his mother, using her kitchen as a laboratory, began the stoeping of herbs with tbo assistance of her family. The filling of a gross or so of bottles was the work of an evening, and then the sons went ar .und Boston and surrounding towns distributing circulars setting forth the virtues of tho compound. Success attended their combined efforts, newspaper notoriety followed, and soon the kitchen gave place to a wellappointed laboratory. Yet larger accommodations were required until they at length erected a building with facilities sufficient to meet the demands of a great and growing business. This is now pointed to as a proof of tho results of advertising. Mrs. Charles H. Pinkham is actively engaged in the correspondence work of the cimpany. and attends personally to the visits of female patients, so that instead of there being no Mrs. Pinkham, there have been Jn reality two ladies of that, naipe. one of them still attending to the business founded in Lynn many years ago.