St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-08-22
A MIRACLE IN MISSOURI.
THE HiEgEMEK7S or MEDICAL SCI
ENCE FAR MORE WONDERFUL
7HAH THE MAGIC or
THE EAST.
The Remarkable Experience Of
Postmaster WoodsoD, OF Pam
ANA, Mo. Ten Years
Cripple - Today Well and
Hearty Man.
(Erom the Kansas CITY Times.)

SrrOm the Kansas City III mes
The people Of Rich Hill. Mo-. and vi
entity 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 NJ.
WOodsou. now postmaster at Panama,
and brother Of eX-State Inspector of
Mines e. Q. WoOdsOn. of this city. The
people OF Rich Hill, where he formerly
resided, and OF his present home, re-
member we'll the bent form, misShapen
ALMOST from the semDlance 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 remarkable case has
become the marvel of the two counties.
Exactly as MIR, Woodson told it to
Times reporter 1t is here published:
''For ten years | have suffered the tor
ments Of the damned and have been a
useless Invalid; today ! am a we'll and
hearty man, free from almost every
touch of pain. l don't think man ever
suffered more acute and constant agony
than l have since 1854. The rheuma-
tlsD started then in my right knee, and
after weeks OF suffering in bed l was at
last relieved sufficiently to arise, but it
was only to get about on crutches for
i've 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
$780, 81, after the rheumatism had settled
into its most chronic form, l went to
Kansas City upon advice Of my brother,
ard for six weeks | was treated in one
OF the largest and best known dis
pensaries OF that city, but without the
slightest Improvement. Before l came
home secured strong galvanic bat
terry; this l used for months with the
same result. In August, 1892, 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 atfordl.g me
more than temporary relief, and so l
came home, weak. doubled with pain,
helpless and respondent.
about this time my attention was
called to the account of remarkable
cure by DR.. Williams Pink Pills for
Pale People of locomotor ataxia, rheu-
matism aud paralysis. l ordered some
OF the pills as an experiment. When l
began to take them 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. l was able TO attend
to the du ties OF my office. to get about
as well and strong man. l was free
from pain. and L could enjoy a sound
and restful nights sleep, something l
had not known for ten years. Today
am practically, and, firmly believe,
permanently cured Of my terrible and
!! agoniZlng ailment. No magician Of the
Far East ever wrought the miracle with
his wand that DR.. w illiams' Pink Pill
did for me.''
TO verify the story beyond all ques-
ton of doubt, Mr.. Wo0dson mad g the
following affidavit:
STATE OF MISSOURI. CO
COUNTY OF BATES. 3D.
I, NJ. M. Woodson, being duly sworn
on my oath state that the following
statements are true and correct as l
verify believe. M. Nj. WooDsoN.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 81 day of March. 1894.
JOHN D. MOORE, Notary Public.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale Peo-
pie are manufactured by the Dr. Will
Jams Medicine Company, Schenectady,
n. Y, and are sold only in boxes bear.
ing the firms trade mark and wrapper,
at 30 cents box, Or six boxes for $3.50.
Bear in mind that DR.. Williams 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 direct by mail from DR..
Williams Medicine Co.