The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-09-08
A MIRACLE In MISSOURI.
The Achievements Of Medical
Science Far More Wonderful
Than the Magic Of the East.
The Remarkable Experience of Post Mas
ter Woodson, Of Panama, MOTOR
Ten Years a Crlpple-To-Day A
Well and Hearty Man.
from the Kansas City Times.l


The people of Rich Hill, Mo-, and vicinity,
have recently been startled by a seeming
miracle of healing. For years one of the
best known men in Bates and Vernon coun-
ties has been Mark NJ. Woodson, now post
master at Panama, and brother Of ex-State
Inspector of Mines c. c. Woodson, of this
city. The people of Rich Hill, where he
formerly resided, and of his present home,
remember well the bent form, misshapen
almost from the semblance of man, which
has painfully bowed its head half to earth
and labored snail-like across the walks
season after season, and when one day last
month it Strengthened to its full height,
threw away the heavy butt of cane which
for years had been its only support from
total helplessness, and walked erect, firmly
unhesitatingly about the two cities, people
looked and wondered. The story Of the re-
markable case has become the marvel Of the
two counties. Exactly as Mr.. Woodson told
1t to Times reporter, it is here published:
For ten years I have suffered the tor
ments of the damned and have been use
less invalid; to-day am well and hearty
man free from almost every touch of pain
/ don't think man ever suffered more acute
and constant agony than have since 1854.
The rheumatism started then in my right
knee, and after weeks Of suffering in bed /
was at last relieved sufficiently to arise, but
1t was only to get about on clutches for five
years, the ailment having settled in the
joint. Despite constant treatment of the
most eminent physicians the rheumatism
grew worse, and for the last four years /
have been compelled to go about bent half
toward the ground. In the winter of 1896
81, after the rheumatism had settled into its
most chronic form, / went to Kansas City
upon advice of my brother, and for six
weeks was treated in one of the largest
and best known dispensaries of that city,
but without the slightest Improvement.
Before came home secured strong gal
vanic battery, this used for months with
the same result. In August, 1892, I went
to st. Louis, and there conferred with the
widely known DR.. Mudd of hospital prac-
tice fame, and DIR. Kale of the city hospital.
None of them would take my case with any
hope of affording me more than temporary
relief, and so 1 came home, weak, doubled
with pain, helpless and Respondent.
s'About this time my attention was called
TO the account of a remarkable cure by Dr.
Williams Pink Pills for Pale People Of
locomotor ataxia, rheumatism and paral-
ysis L ordered some of the pills as an ex-
the rheumatism had developed into phase
of paralysis; my leg from the thigh down
was cold all the time and could not be kept
warm. In short time the pills were gone,
and so was the cane. / was able to attend
to the duties of my Office, to get about as
well and strong man. was free from pain
and / could enjoy sound and restful
nights sleep, something had not known
for ten years. To-day am practically, and,
firmly believe, permanently cured of my
terrible and agonizing ailment. No ma
gician of the Far East ever wrought the
miracle with his wand that DR.. Williams
Pink Pills did for me-"
To verify the story beyond all question of
affidavit:
STATE OF Missouri, GO
COUNTY OF BATES, o.
/, NJ. M. Woodson, being duly sworn on
my oath state that the following statements
are true and correct as verify believe.
M. NJ WooDsoN.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this Sd
day of March, 1894.
JoHN d. MOORE, Notary Public.
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are manufactured by the DIR. Williams
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are sold only in boxes bearing the firms
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Williams Pink Pills are never sold in bulk
or by the dozen or hundred, and any dealer
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