The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-07-27
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 = Cripple-TOday
q Well and Hearty Man.
IRON the kansas City mines,

The people of Rich Hill, Mo-. and
vicinity, have recently been startled
by seeming miracle of healing. For
years one of the best known men in
Bates and Vernon counties has been
Mark M. Woodson, now postmaster at
Panama, and brother of ex-State In
spector of Mines G. G. Woodson, of this
city. The people of Rich Hill, where
he formerly resided, and of his present
home, remem Der well the bent form,
misshappen almost from the semi lance
of man, which has painfully bowed its
head half to earth and 1abOred snail
like across the walks season after sea-
son, 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 remarkable case has
become the marvel of the two counties.
Exactly as Mr.. WoodSon told it to .
Times reporter, it is here published:
''For ten years I have suffered the
torments of the damned and have been
a useless invalid; today I am well
and hearty man, free from almost
every touch of pain. I don't think
man ever suffered more acute and con-
SOdAO dSOuy GIldA = nave SIACO 4OO6s
The rheumatism started then in my
right knee, and after weeks of suffer
ing in bed was at last relieved sufh-
GENTLY 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
l have been compelled to go about bent
half toward the ground. In the winter
of 1890-91, after the rheumatism had
settled into it's most chronic form,
l went to Kansas City upon advice of
my brother, and for six weeks I was
treated in one of the largest and best
known dispensaries of that city, but
without the slightest Improvement.
Before l came home / secured a strong
galvanic battery, this I used for months
with the same result. In August, 1892.
I went to St. Louis, and there con-
ferred with the widely known DIR.
Mudd of hospital practice fame, and
DIR. Kale of the city hospital. None of
them would take my case with any
hope of affording me more than tenn
porary relief, and so 1 came home,
weak, doubled. with pain, helpless and
respondent.
''About this time my attention was
called to the account of remarkable
cure by DIR. Williams Pink Pills for
Pale People of locomotor ataxia, rheu-
matism and paralysis. I ordered some
of the pills as an experiment. When I
began to take them, the rheumatism
had developed into phase of paraly
sis; 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. I was able
to attend to the duties of my Office, to
get about as well and strong man. I
was free from pain and could enjoy
sound and restful nights sleep, some
thing I had not known for ten years.
Today am practically, and, I firmly be-
lieve, permanently cured of my terrible
and agOniZing ailment. No magician of
the Far East ever wrought the miracle
with his wand that DIR. Williams Pink
Pills did for me-"
To verify the story beyond all cues
ton of doubt Mr.. WOodson made the
following affidavit:
STATE OF MISSOURI,
COUNTY OF BATES,
/, M. M. Woodson, being duly sworn
on my oath state that the following
statements are true and correct as I
verify believe. M. 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 DIR.
Williams Medicine Company, Schenect-
ady, n. Y, and are sold only in boxes
bearing the firms trade mark and
wrapper, at so cents box or six boxes
for SO. so. Bear in mind that DIR. Will
Jams 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. DIR. Williams Pink
Pills may be had of all druggists or di-
rect by mail from DIR. Williams Medi-
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