Good Housekeeping

Good Housekeeping is a women's magazine owned by the Hearst Corporation, featuring articles about women's interests, product testing by The Good Housekeeping Institute, recipes, diet, health as well as literary articles. It is well known for the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. The magazine was founded May 2, 1885 by Clark W. Bryan in Holyoke, Massachusetts

Good Housekeeping Institute

The Good Housekeeping Institute, founded in 1900 as an "Experiment Station", awards the Good Housekeeping Seal (since 1909) to products advertised in the magazine that are acceptable for publication. It also produces a Buyer's Guide and issues reports.

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1900 - 1909

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It advocated for pure food as early as 1905, helping to lead to the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act. It prohibted the advertising of cigarettes in the magazine in 1952, 12 years before the Surgeon General's warning labels were required.

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1905 - 1906 - Pure Food and Drug Act - Cigarette - 1952 - Surgeon General

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