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Marjorie May's 12th [Twelfth] Birthday
(Kotex puberty & menstruation booklet, U.S.A., 1938)
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Ten years after the first Marjorie May's 12th Birthday, Kotex offered the puberty and menstruation education pamphlet below, a late and maybe final edition. The language is freer and story has changed somewhat, but it still reflects the privileged clientele Kotex sold its menstrual napkins to. See below for earlier editions and a discussion of the series, and see similar booklets on this site.

Title page (p. 1) - pages 2-3 - pages 4-5 - pages 6-7 - pages 8-9 - page 10-11 - page 12

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Below: Other editions of Twelfth Birthday on this site

 

 

Australia, 1928 (partial text) 
U.S.A., mid 1930s; text not on this site 

 

 

 Canada, 1935 (complete text) 
Canada, 1932, (complete text) 

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