Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-08-24
MIRACLE IN MISSOURI
-,e ACHIEVEMENTS OF MEDICAL
SCIENCE FAR MORE WONDER
E,ll THAN THE MAGIC OF
THE EAST.

,rs Remarkable Experience OF Post
master woodsOn of Panama, Mo.
ror Ten Years Cripple-To-day a
we'll and Hearty Man.
rom the Kansas City Times.l
The people of Rich Hill, Mo-, and
,io;nitv have recently been startled by a
.aoming miracle OF healing. For years
mo Of the best known men in Bates and
yorron counties has been Mark M.
woodson, now postmaster at Panama
I'd brother of ex-State Inspector of
Mines c. G. Woodson of this city, The
noonle of Rich Hill, where he formerly
rooided and of his present home re-
,,omber well the bent form, misshapen
,lnost from the semblaEce OF man,
,rbich has painfully bowed its head half
- oo,th and labored snail-like across the
SSoIks season after season, and when one
dow last month it Strengthened to its full
baight. threw away the heavy butt OF
nane which for years had been its only
snnnort from total helplessness, and
waIked erect, firmly, unhesitatingly
about the two cities, people looked and
wandered. The story OF the remarkable
oosa has become the marvel of the two
connties. Exactly as Mr.. Woodson told
If to Times reporter. it is here pub
lshed; -
torments of the damned and have been
useless invalid; to-day | am well and
hearty man, free from almost every
tonch 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 about on crutches Tor five
years. the ailment having settled in the
ioint. Despite constant treatment of
The most eminent physicians the rheu-
matism 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 its most chronic form, l
vent to Kansas City upon advice of my
brother and for six weeks l 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 August, 1892, |
went to st. Louis, and there con-
ierred with the widely known DR.. Mudd
q hospital practice fame and DIR.
Ke of the city hospital. None of them
would take my case with any hope OF
sfadng me more than temporary re-
lief and so | 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 for Pale
People of ocomotor ataxia, rheumatism
and paralysis. | ordered some OF the
pills as an experiment. When | began
to take them the rheumatism had de-
yeloped 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. | was able to attend to
the duties OF my office, to get about as a
well and strong man, | was free from
pain and could enjoy sound and rest
ful nights sleep, something had not
known for ten years. To-day am prac-
tically, and l firmly believe, permanently
cured of my terrible and agonizing all
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~ ever wrought the miracle with his wand
that DR.. Williams Pink Pills did for
n me-"
To verify the story beyond all ques-
uon OF doubt MIR. Woodson made the
following affidavit:
SrATE OF MIssoURr,l GO
\ COUNTY OF BATEs,( co.
E |, M. M. Woodson, being duly sworn
on my oath, state that the following
statements are true and correct as L
verify believe. NJ. M. WooDsoN.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
ms ID day of March, 1894.
4 JOHN D. MOORE, Notary Pubfc.
Or. Williams Pink Pills for Pale
rreople are manufactured by the DR..
Williams Medicine Company, Schnec-
ady N. Y, and are sold only in boxes
Narng the firms trade mark and
II ssnpper, at 80 cents box or six boxes
iTW50. Bear in mind that DR.. Will
Ams' Pink Pills are never sold in bulk
by the dozen or hundred, and any
aealer who offers substitutes in this form
irving to defraud you and should be
TIded. DIR. Williams Pink Pills may
y mad of all druggists or direct by mail
IRON DR.. Williams Medicine Co.