Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-06-29
A MIRACLE in MISSOURI.
THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF MED
ICAL SCIENCE FAR MORE
WONDERFUL THAN THE
MAGIC OF THE EAST.
The Remarkable Experience of Post Master
woodson, OF Panama. Mo.--For Ten
Years Cripplc--To-day Wen and
(from ne Kossqs City Tioaes.)

Inc people Oh hlcll Hlll, NO, ana
vicinity, have recently been startled
by a seeming miracle of 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 G. G. Woodson, of this
city. The people of Rich Hill, where
he formerly resided, and of his present
home. remember well the bent form,
nisshapen almost from the semblance
of man, which has painfully bowed its
head half TO earth and labored snail
like across the walks season after sea-
son, and when one day last month it
Strengthened to it's full height, threw
away the heavy butt of cane which Tor
wears 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 wears i have suffered the
torments of the damned and have been
| useless invalid; to-day l am a we'll
and hearty man. free from almost every
touch of pain. | don't think man ever
suffered more acute and constant agony
than have since 1884 The rheumatism
started then in my right knee, and
after weeks of suffering in bed | was
at last relieved sufficiently to arise,
but it was only to get a bout on clutches
for five years, the ailment having
settled in the joint. Despite constant
treatment of the most eminent ply
sicians 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 1S90-91,
after the rheumatism had settled into
it's 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 dispenser IS
of that city, but without the slightest
improvement. Before ! came home /
secured strong galvanic battery: this
used for months with the same result.
In August, 1892, | went to st. Louis,
and there conferred with the widely
known DR.. Muad 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
temporary relief. and SO | came home.
weak, doubled with pain helpless and
Respondent
about this time my attention was
called to the account of remarka bic
cure by Dr. Williams Pink Pills for
Pale People of locomotor ataxia, rheu-
matism and paralysis. | ordered some
of the pills as an experiment. When |
began to take them, the rheumatism
had developed into phase of paralysis;
| my leg from my 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 a well and strong man. i
was free from pain and | could enjoy a
sound and restful night's,sleep, some
thing ] had not known for ten years.
To-day am practically. and. / firmly
believe. permanently cured OF my ter
+, , rible 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 ques-
ton of doubt Mr.. Woodson made the
| following affidavit:
STATE OF MISSOURI, &c
COUNTY OF BATES,
/. NJ. NJ. Woodson. being duly sworn
on my oath state that the following
statements are true and correct as |
verify believe. NJ M. 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, n. Y, and are sold only in boxes
bearing TIE firms trade mark and
wrapper, at so cents a box or six boxes
for 81. SO. Bear in mind that DR.. Will
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 10 defraud you and
should be avoided. DR.. Williams Pink
Pills may be had of all druggists or
direct by mail from DIR. Williams
Medicine Co.