People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-07-27
A MIRACLE IN MISSOURI.
THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF MEDICAL
SCIENCE FAR MORE WONDER.
Full THAN THE MAGIC of
THE EAST.

lne EhSIs
The Remarkable Experience Of Posrns'-
ter WoOdson or Panama, Mo. Tor len
Years . Cripple To- Day . Well and
Hearty Man.
From the Kansas City Time.O
The people of Rich Hill, No., and vi
oinity have recently been startled by
q seeming miracle in healing. For
years one of the best known men in
Bates and Vernon counties has been
Mark NJ. Woodson, now postmaster at
Panama, and brother of ex-State In
spector of Mines, C. c. Woodson of
this city. The people of Rich Hill,
where ne formerly resided, and of his
present home, remember well the bent
form, m;sshapen almost from the SEM
blance of man, which has painfully
bowed its head half to earth and labor
ed 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 remarka-
BILE case has become the marvel of the
two counties. Exactly as Mr. Wood
son told it to Times reporter, it is
here published:
''For ten years | have suffered the
tOrments of the damned and have
been useless invalid: to-day l am
well and hearty man, free from almost
every touch of pain. | don't think
man ever suffered more acute and con-
slant agony than | have since 1884.
The rheumatism started then in my
right knee, and after weeks of suffer
ing in bed was at last relieved sufiic-
iently to arise, but it was only to get
about on crutches 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 60 about
bent half toward the ground. In the
winter OF 1S90-9l, after the rheumatism
had settled into its most chronic form.
l 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 a strong
galvanic battery, this / used for
months with the same result. In Aug.
ust. 1892, l went to ST. Louis and there
conferred with the widely known DR..
Mudd of hospital practice fame, and
DR.. Kale of the city hospital. None Of
them would take my case with any
hope of affOrding me more than TEN.
porary relief, and so I came home,
weak, doubled with pain, helpless
and respondent.
about this time my attention was
called to the account of a remarkable
cure by DR.. Williams Pink Pills fol
Pale People of locomotor ataxia, rheu,
matism ana paralysis. l ordered some
Of the pills as an experiment. When ]
began to take them the rheumatism
had developed into a phase of paral-
ysis; my leg from the thigh down was
cold all the time and could not be kept
warm, In a 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 a
sound and restful nights sleep, some
thing had not known for ten years.
Today am practically, and, l firmly be-
lieve, permanently cured of my terri
BILE and agonizing ailment No magic
ian OF the Far East has ever wrought
the miracle with his wand that DR..
Williams Pink Pills did for me-"
To verify the story beyond all ques-
ton of doubt Mr.. Woodson made the
following affidavit:
STATE OF Missouri, !
COUNTY OF BATES, %
I, NJ. NJ. Woodson, being duly sworn
on my oath state that the following
statements are true and correct as
verify believe.
VI. NJ. WOODsoN.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this Sd day of March, 1894.
JOHN D. MOORE, Notary Public.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale
People are manufactured by the DR..
Williams Medicine Company, Science
tady, y. Y, and are sold only in boxes
bearing the firms trade mark and
wrapper, at 80 cents box or six boxes
for $50. Bear in mind that DR.. VIII
liams' Pink Pills are never sold in bulk
or by the dozen or hundred, and any
dealer who offers substitutes in this
form is trying to defraud you and
should be avoided. DR.. Williams Pink
Pills may be had of all druggists or di-
rect by mail from DR.. Williams Medi-
cine Co.