See more Kotex items: First ad for
the pad (1921; scroll to bottom of page) -
pad ad, 1928 (Sears
and Roebuck catalog) - Lee Miller pad ads
(first real person in a menstrual hygiene
ad, 1928) - Marjorie
May's Twelfth Birthday (booklet for
girls, 1928, Australian edition; there are
many links here to Kotex items) - Preparing for
Womanhood (1920s, booklet for girls;
Australian edition) - 1920s booklet in
Spanish showing pad disposal method
- box from about
1969 - "Are you in the
know?" ads for pads (1949)(1953)(1964)(booklet, 1956) -
See more ads on the Ads
for Teenagers main page
See a Modess True
or False? ad in The American Girl
magazine, January 1947, and actress Carol Lynley in
"How Shall I Tell My Daughter" booklet ad
(1955) - Modess . . .
. because ads (many dates).
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Newspaper ads for Fibs, the
first successful Kotex menstrual
tampon
Read about the life and death
of this tampon.
See the actual tampon and
more ads for Fibs
(and here).
A genealogy researcher kindly
sent the scans, some of many of
tampons from newspapers. She
wants to remain anonymous.
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Below:
Feb. 18, 1937, Mansfield News
Journal, Ohio
See Quest
and menstrual pad belts.
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Below:
May 19, 1938, Mansfield News
Journal, Ohio
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Below:
Oct 20, 1939, Reno Evening
Gazette, Nevada
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