Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-07-28
A Miracle in Missouri.
THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF MEDIC
AL SCIENCE FAR MORE WON
DERFUL THAN THE MAG
&c OF THE EAST.
The Remarkable Experience of Post
master Woodson of Panama, Mo-.
For ten Years CrippIe-To-day
a Well and Hearty Man.

FOE CCn Il OdES a Of1ppI0-1O-udy
a Well and Hearty Man.
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
Woodson, now postmaster at Panama,
and brother of ex-State Inspector of
Mines, @. 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, misshapen al
most from the semblance 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 on
~ 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 a Times reporter it is here pub
lished:
''For ten years / have suffered the
torments of the damned and have been
a useless invalid; to-day I 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 rheuma-
tism started then in my right knee, and
after weeks of suffering in bed I was at
last relieved sufficiently 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 rheuma-
tism grew worse, and for the last four
years have been compelled to go about
bent half toward the ground. In the
winter of 1890-91, after the rheumatism
has settled into its 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 I
came home | secured a strong galvanic
battery, this | used for months with the
same result. In August, 1892, Invent to
st. Louis, and there conferred with the
widely known DIR. Mudd, of hospital prac-
tice fame, and DIR. Kale of the city hospi-
tai. None of them would take my case
with any hope of affording me more than
temporary relief, and so I 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, rheumatism
and paralysis. I ordered some of the
Pills as an experiment. When l began
to take them, the rheumatism had de-
veloped into a phase of paralysis; 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. 1 was free from
pain and could enjoy a sound and restful
nights sleep, something I had not
known for ten years. To-day am prac-
tically, and firmly believe, permanently
cured of my terrible and agonizing all
ment. No magician 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, IS
COUNTY OF BATES.
1, M. M. Woodson, being duly Cworn
on my oath state that the following
statements are true and correct as I
verify believe. M. M. WooDsoN.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 3rd day of March, 1894.
JOHN d. MOORE, Notary Public.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale Peo-
pie are manufactured by the DR.. Viii
iams' Medicine Company, Schenectady,
n. Y, and are sold only in boxes bear
ing the firms trade mark and wrapper,
at so cents box or SIX boxes for So, so.
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 bad of
all druggists or direct by mail from DR..
Williams Medicine Co.
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