The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-03-27 00:00:00

SENSATION IN CHELMSFORD!

Tao Chelmsford News, the leading paper of Essex
furn.s'a's the following facts :—The famay of Mr.
George Laster, who have resided in Marriages
Bqua,e. Ch,lnisford, for twenty-three years have
just met with a thrilling experience. The par-
ticulars of the event are so remarkable that they
have created nothing short of a downright sensa-
tion in our usually quiet town. The facts as given
below have been duly verified by us and are of such
general intarest that they should be made public
everywhere, inasmuch as there are, no doubt,
thous,inds of families who can profit by the intelli-
gence thus conveyed.
About eighteen months aga the son of Mr. Lester,
a youth of seventeen, was attacked with a peculiat
and painful ailment of his ankles an muscles,
which so di-abled him that he was obliged to stop
workiag at his trade., that of a baker. Ho was
place 1 under the treatment of a skilful physic'an,
and notwithstanding every attention be received no
benefi-, but speedily got worse. His c nliticn be-
came so alarming that further me ii,al aid was
called in, but still he failed to obtain relief. The
malady of the youth had now assumed such a
violent form that his condition was pitiable. He
had conepletely lost the use of his ankles and was
unable to walk. It was only with the aid of
crutel 03 th it he could move about at all, and even
then not without exp.arienciug the most intense
pain. In the language of his parents, he was com-
pletely crippled. He was then sent to one of the
loading London hol-ptals, but there also his suffer-
ings were not in the slightest relieved. He had
now Leon crippled for nearly a year, and every
treatment having utterly tailed, he and his parents
were almost in 'despair. His friends, and all who
knew him, believed that he would never able to
walk again.
Having read in a Chelmsford paper of some re-
markable cures wrought by a rer edy rec ,ntly in-
troduced for the cure of pain, the young man was
led, as a last resort, to make a trial of one bottle
of same. To use his own words, he was greatly
reliev. d after having applied the article but once,
and he was able to walk without his crutches in
ter days from the time he purchascd the first
bottle. After using three bottles he was, strange
as it may seem, actmlly able to resume his former
active life. His cure seems almost miraculous to
sil those who are familiar with his long, agonizing
sufferings and his previous helpless condition, and
St. Jaeobs Oil, which is the remedy he used, is
certainly entitled to the credit of having accom-
plished a wonderful cure under our very eyes. _

When a representative of this paper Called on
Lester. in order to see for himself what this
magical remedy had done for Urn, the young man
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could scarcely find words with which to express his
gratitude a: his recovery. He remaiked that St.
Jacobs Oil had transferred him from agony and
misery to joy,
Mr. James Tomlinson, the well.knolsn dispensing
chemist of Tindal Square. from whom young Lester
purchased this wonderful oil, and who is thoroughly
familiar with his case, stated to our reporter that
while this was a most astonishing recovery, nume-
rous other cures, which had resulted from its use
and which had come to his notice, were almost as
remarkable. In consequence of the surprising
power which the remedy possesses to relieve puin
and strengthen and restore the muscles and joints
to their normal condition, such extraordinary de-
mand had, Mr. Tomlinson said, sprung up that he
found it difficult to keep a sufficient stock on hand.
In ftigt, instead a fotteug hire reunite§ irora tho