The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-05-29
A WOMAN'S ENTERPRISE.
AN IMPORTANT AND PROMISING
INDUSTRY YET IN ITS IN
FANCY.
How Persevering Woman Overcame
Obstacles and Achieved Success in
Spite Of UnfavOrable Circumstances.

How Persevering Woman Overcame
Obstacles and Achieved Success in
Spite of UnfavOrable Circumstances.
durham Globe.l
The visit of Mrs. Joe Person to the
city in the interest of her valuable rem
edy for blood diseases, suggested to a
reporter the thought that the readers Of
the Giobe might be interested in some
facts relating to the discovery of the
medicine that has made her name a
household word in North Carolina.
Acting upon the suggestion, the re-
porter obtained an interview with Mrs.
Person and learned from her own lips
the story OF her discovery and the ups
and downs she has experienced in
bringing knowledge of the wonderful
curative powers of her medicine to suf-
fering humanity.
Some time prior to the death Of her
late husband, child of Mrs. Persons
lay dying of scrofula. The physician
in attendance called for the last time,
and went away saying that the child
could not live through the night.
Without one beam of hope, the grief
stricken mother prepared to watch the
vital spark depart and leave her baby
lifeless piece of human clay but as
the end seemed so be approaching, an
old woman who sat by the bedside,
was reminded of preparation of wild
herbs, which an Indian had revealed
to her father as sovereign remedy for
all diseases of the blood; and though
it seemed that all hope of human aid
was gone, Mrs. Person yielded to her
importunate request, to give it a trial
as last resort land together they went
to the woods near by, and hastily
gathered the herbs. No time was lost
in prepareing the remedy, and in the
morning the child was not dead, but
improvement was clearly apparent.
The treatment was continued, and in
three weeks the baby was we'll.
Such convincing proof of the cura-
tive properties of the preparation were
not lost on Mrs. Person. She knew
that the medicine was good, and she
permitted no opportunity to test its
merits to pass unimproved. Whenever
she heard of a person afflicted with
scrofulous or other blood diseases, she
sent quantity of the medicine with a
lrequest to give it trial and report the
result. BY this means she came into
the possession of many valuable testi-
monals of undoubted cures before she
was prepared to place her remedy on
the market. The first testimonial she
received was from a gentleman whose
three children had been treated for
scrofula two years without relief. In
less than three weeks from the time
they began taking Mrs. Persons rem
edy they were sound and we'll.
The first money that Mrs. Person
ever received for her remedy,was from
a gentleman who had received great
benefit from using some medicine that
she sent him. He sent her twenty-five
dollars, seven of which she invested in
stock, and the other eighteen she spent
for newspaper advertising. (What an
! exhample for business men who do not
think advertising paysD From such
beginning, her business has grown
, until her sales last year amounted to
: 4,447 bottles, and the demand is still
increasing.
Thus Mrs. Person began her bushes:
career. Her husband was dead, and
several small children to feed, clothe
, and educate. With her faith firmly
pinned to the merits Of her medicine
. and with confidence in the success O
her efforts to introduce it to the public
she went to work heroically to build
up business and support her family
In the prosecution of her plans, she
has met with misfortunes and reverses
3 but her courage never wavered and
: her efforts never tagged.
At the present time, Mrs. Person:
!, business may be said to be in aourishine
condition. Though, the necessities o.
her family have prevented the accumu
lation of capital from the profits of he1
sales, she has large and growing de
mand for her remedy from all Norti
Carolina and parts OF Virginia an6
+ South Carolina. She now enjoys Z
. fair income; it is nothing compared
with what it would be if she had ample
= capital to enable her to seek trade il
Q other parts of the country. From th'
: success she has attained, it may b.
8 easily imagined what results would be
Q achieved if she had the resources of an,
one of three or four manufacturers o
proprietary medicines at Atlanta. Sh'
; certainly has vim, enterprise and busi
= ness capacity,a and there seems to be Mt
doubt that she has a remedy that pos
sesses merits equal to any of the pro
q prietary medicines that have mad
great fortunes for the manufacturers o
> them.
r With these thoughts in mind, TIL
g reporter asked Mrs. Person if she woult
= remove to Durham if any person in tn
}, city were disposed to furnish capita
e sufficient to enlarge and prosecute tn
business. She replied that she would
or that she would remove to any othe
= city for that matter but that for variou
d reasons, she would prefer TO come t.
t Durham. She knows that there i
! money as we'll as healing in her medi
q cine, and she has no doubt that a for
= tune could be made out of it in fe,
years if she had capital sufficient to pu
the business On proper basis.
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