The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-12-23
A lANSINGBURG MIRACLE.
A Railway Man Talks.
Literally Half Dead. His Case Pronounced
Hopeless by Prominent Physicians. "a
Story of Surprising Interest Verified
Under Oath.
From Troy (N. W Times.

on tho staff. 1 despise tho chimerical;
court the real. 1 burrow in facts.
am from Lansingburg. We don't often
get good thing from there, but here is
one. f. e. Kimball last night gave me
the following:
II am plain straightforward man.
Originally from Lansingburg, where
now resides my mother, brother and ais
ter Several years ago I moved to Ro-
| chester There l was in tho employ of
tho Erie railroad as yard and freight
super intendent After strain to my
back, caused by heavy lifting three
| years ago, developed so called rheu-
matism. 1t was an increasing thing for
70 years-at times worse, again better
| worked internationally. II l would
shut my eyes l would fall down. NV
feet and legs soon lost feeling-very
numb. This extended to my stomach
and at times to my hands. Doctors Lee
and Spencer, of Rochester, finally pro-
nounced my case progressive locomotor
ataXia; SAID it was incurable, and that
they could only ease my sufrerings and
SO l lay.
up to this time b ad been sick nearly
two years. Before this and for several
months was confined to my bed. Pins
stuck into my legs the full length gave
me no feeling Whatever; M legs seen ed
wooden. To pound them gave off :,
noise like wood So l say as l Law
there was absolutely ono half dead
| dead from the waist down There was
one word written in large characters all
over that sick room-C-L-A-Y Life
departed from my bs that word best
expressed what was left. You, of
course, have read of John Marshall
in
tcribed me exactly. I sent for the
rnm' d. which cured him-for Dr..
Williams Pink Pills, to Schenectady.
A Y, and tried them. took them
irregularly for two months. They didn't
seem to help. All of sudden one
morning one of my legs began to prickle
seemed as though rubbed with net,les,
Then, perhaps, you think did not in
vestigate that medicine. began to
mend fast; got some circula ton, got
control OF my bowels and after few
weeks got out of bed and tried to stand.
at asst | fetched it. Could walk-now
can run. And Pink Pills cured me.
The doctors said I couldn't be cured,
but am What | am now telling YOU
is merely reiteration of what | long
ago wrote to the DR. Williams Medicine
Company at Schenectady, and my aih
davit TO the same is now in their hands.
Here also is letter which my mother
wrote to them and to which she has
ms de affidavit, as you see."
ls6 Second Ave, LANsINGBURG, N Y
DEAR SIRs: My son Fred has lust
written you letter concerning himself
to which desire to ada few words in
entire confederation of all he has said.
he has told you OF his agony and his
cure. The remem brance OF the whole
thing makes me shudder as l think of
1t. 1t is all too wonderful for me-
was resigned to his fate. Now as /
look at him walking about and feeling
we'll, with his old health and ambition
returned, it does seem that he has been
born again and rescued from death for
fact. Could I, therefore, say too much
to you of thanks in the fullness of nv
gratitude? Can | we'll cease blessing
you? Yet the intensity OF nv feelings
M AXE my words of thanksgiving to you
seem but empty indeed; for the lost is
| found, and he that was dead is alive
again. Yours, HARRIET J. KIMBALL.
Sworn and subscribed before me this
5th day of April, 1893.
Nj. l.. FANcHER
Notary Public
Mrs. Kin ball said: while believe
in answers to prayer and prayed ear.
Mostly for his recovery, for l am
Christian woman, and believe my
prayers were answered, do think
Pink Pills were the means the Lord
used to effect my sons cure want
you to meet my daughter, Mrs. G.. II
Morrison, with whom we are living, and
the Rev. George Fairlee, pastor OF West.
minister Church, who lives with us, and
near what they have to says" So Mrs.
kimball brough them in, and while
the story as told was most complete and
could be added to by nothing they
might say, yet the reporter heard from
the lips of the sister and their pastor,
corroborative words OF all that has been
said. The reporter also ran across the
son in-law, Mr.. G. II. Morrison, cashier
of the National Bank, of Troy, and
| spoke to him of Mr.. Kimball. He is
busy man and though he could only be
detained for moment he said: 81
know nothing of the case technically
be says he was cured by DR.. Williams
Pink Pills, and 1 think that is about
the size Of it,"
Mr.. William Il. Flandreau, the drug
gist at 814 River ST., Troy, said. sit is
the most wonderful cure from locomo ter
ataxia-a so-called incurabe disease
Mr.. Kimball tells me he owes his re-
covery to Pink Pills entirely and have
every reason to believe him."
FINK Fills restore pale people and
sallow compilations to the glow Of
health, and are a specific for all the
troubles peculiar to the female sex,
while in the case of men they effect q
radical cure in all cases arising from
mental worry, overwerk or excuses Of
| whatever nature"
| These Pills are manufactured by the
DR.. Williams Medicine Company Sche.
nectady, N. Y, and Rockville, Ont,
and are sold in boxes never in loose