The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-02-24

Newspaper men as o rule place little
credence in patent medicine stories and
seldom bother to even read them. This
is not TO br wondered at when it is taken
into consideration how often they are
called upon by INSCRIPTIONS persons to
fabricate and publish stories of remark.
able cures ard perhaps print picture
OF tho mythical man or woman sup
posed to have been cured. That all
medicine advertisements are not mere
fakes, and that all newspaper men
are not equally prejudiced, is proven by
story published in tho Cincinnati
Times. Star Of a well-known newsps per
man whose life was saved by reading an
advertisement. So remarkable and in
teresting is the story that it is here re-
produced as published in the Times
Star.
Mr.. Charles B. Noble, the we'll known
literateur, who has been suffering for
nearly three years with paralysis, was
upon the street to-day, cheerful and &C.
tive and the recipient of congratula-
tions from his many friends. There is
bond of unity between all newspaper
mon, 80 that Mr.. Mobiles case appeals
to every member of the craft as we'll as
to every one afflicted as he was. Mr..
Noble has spent the last three years in
travelling from city to city seeking
skilled physicians, to whom he has ap-
pealed in vain for relief. Knowing this
reporter expressed surprise at tho re-
markable cure, but Mr.. Noble, after
executing jig to show that he was as
sound rs he looked, let the reporter
into the secret Of his cure.
1t vas hard time 1 had of it," said
hn tthnt loo io;n ~.
always the one that cures, and I have
taken the last. [ was paralyzed on
March $780, while in the employ of
the David Williams Publishing Com
pany, of New York City, as their travel.
ing representa- tive from Cincinnati
found the travelling great help to me,
both in financial and literary way,
but suddenly stricken down as l was at
Somerset, Ohio, $50 miles from Cincin-
natl, | was incapactated for both writ
ing and money making. Luckily my
literary productiu had been re N uncra.
tive, and had snug bank account laid
up, but these three years have made a
drain on it.
81 sought score OF physicians, going
to the best specialists in Cincinnati,
Chattanooga and Pittsburg Twelve
Cincinnati doctors pronounced nv case
incurable, but would not give up, and
after seeking in vain for relief in Pitts
burg and Chattanooga, consulted the
best medical talent in Chicago Up to
January IT, 1893, l had spent SO, 500 for
doctors and medicine, and was about to
give up in despair, when | got hold OF
Williams Pink Pills for Pale People
through reading the advertisements.
From the first week Of using the
remedy made o steady Improvement,
|
using 1t thirty months. | certainly be-
lieve this medicine Is all the proprietors
claim for 1T and that 1t will do all they
say it will. ! take pleasure in recon-
mending it to all similarly afflicted.
Like many who have tried medicine in
vain, | was doubtful Of it's value at first
and only used it when grew desperate
Now ! cannot praise it too highly 1t
has restored me to health and strength
and | feel grateful accordingly. DR..
Whitaker pronounced it q hopeless case
OF locomotor ataxia.
Yes. know there are many who will
fancy anything you say about my case
is an advertisement, but if they want
any confederation, let them address me
at tho Y. M. A. building, and will
cheerfully answer all inquiries if stamps
are incloscd."
Pink Pills, while advertised and
handled by tho drug trade as a pro-
prietary article, are not considered 8
patcnt medicine in the sense that name
implies. For many years previous to
their general manufacture thoy were
used as prescription. At first their
great restorative powers were not fully
recognized and they were chiefly pre-
scribed for impure blood and genera
weakness. Their remarkable success in
nd - e.
nothing in the formula that could do
any harm, even if they did not do any
good, led to their being tried in cases
where the skill of the physician and the
power of medicine had entirely failed.
Their power of restoration seemed to
border on the marvellous. They proved
to be never failing specific for such
diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial
paralysis, st. Vitus' dance, sciatica
neuralgia, rheumatism. nervous head
ache, the after effect of la grippe, palpi-
tation OF the heart, pale and sallow
compilations and all diseases of the
blood. such as scrofula, chronic erysipe.
las, etc
They are also specific for troubles
peculiar to females, such as suppress
sions, irregularities and all forms Of
weakness. They build up the blood and
restore the glow of health to pale and
sallow cheeks. In case Of men, they
effect radical cure in all cases arising
from mental worry, overwork or ex
cesses of whatever nature.
Pink Pills are sold in boxes (never in
loose form, by the dozen or hundred, and
the public is cautioned against numerous
limitations sold in this shape) at so cents
box or six boxes for So so, and may be
had of all druggists, or direct by mail
from DR.. Williams Medicine Company,
Schenectady, N. Y. or Rockville, Ont.