See the fax tampon and the almost identical tampon Nunap sold probably about the same time, both probably made of Cellucotton, the component of Kotex. See other marketing devices: Ad-design contest for menstrual products in the United Kingdom; "Your Image is Your Fortune!," Modess sales-hints booklet for stores, 1967 (U.S.A., donated by Tambrands, 1997) See early tampoms Wix and Dale and a bunch of other earlier ones. SEE ALSO the directory of all tampons on this site. See some Kotex items: First ad (1921) - ad 1928 (Sears and Roebuck catalog) - Lee Miller ads (first real person in amenstrual 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 disposal method - box from about 1969 - "Are you in the know?" ads (Kotex) (1949)(1953)(1964)(booklet, 1956) - See more ads on the Ads for Teenagers main page Comic strip: A conservative American family visits the (future) Museum of Menstruation CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could? 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Tux menstrual tampon (U.S.A., 1930s) Box and newspaper ad (1936, at top of page) Early tampons can surprise you. Fax had no string or applicator; Wix came in a beautiful box that could have held candy. (Later ones can too. See purple covering and blue string on a Tampax sound-a-like.) Tux - does the name come from tuck? Tuxedo? - has sharply pointed plugs (the part that absorbs menstrual fluid) as if someone had carved them like a stick. Although the tampon looks crude - see a Turkish imitator of Tampax for crudity - they're at least all alike. And the company had a surprising idea about advertising them! Procter & Gamble kindly donated the box and contents as part of a gift of scores of menstrual products. A genealogy researcher generously donated the and many similar ones from early newspapers.   Look at the first ad under PERSONAL The ad comes from The Oshkosh [Wisconsin] Northwestern newspaper, p. 14, dated September 1, 1936. Note the "Kerosene operated Electrolux refrigerators" in the ad above it. I wonder how electricity figured in its operation given "Electro-."   The box measures 3 x 2.5 x 0.87" (c. 7.5 x 6.5 x 2.1 cm) and Procter & Gamble sent it to me beaten up, as shown, including the crayon (?) markings. The store Marshall Field & Company, which Macy's took over in 2006, was a famous Chicago landmark. Twenty cents for three tampons - almost seven cents a 'pon - was expensive. Other Thirties tampons in MUM cost roughly two to four cents each. The box holds no instructions - possibly lost, reflecting the condition of the box.    See below for the other four sides.         These words betray Tux's age; women hardly knew what menstrual tampons were in the early-to-mid 1930s. Read more about the word and some odd uses before the 1930s. NEXT: the open display box & tampons. See Dale and fax tampons, both from about this time and a Turkish imitator of Tampax. 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