The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-07-05
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, Mo.-For Ten Years a Crippie-To-Day A
 Well and Hearty Man.
From the Kansas City Times.

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 coun-
 ties has been Mark M. Woodson, now post
 master at Panama, and brother of ex-State
 Inspector of Mines c. c. Woodson, of this city. The people of Rich Hill, where he
 formerly resided, and of his present home,
 remember well the bent form, misshapen
 almost from the semblance of man, which
 has painfully bowed its head half to earth
 and labored snail-lile 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 helpIessness, and walked erect, firmly,
 unhesitatingly about the two cities, people
 looked and wondered. The story of the re- marlSable case has become the marvel of the two counties. Exactly as MT. Woodson told | it to Times reporter, it is here published:
 "For ten years l have suffered the tor
 ments of the damned and have been use- less invalid; to-day am q well and hearty
 man free from almost every touch of pain. l 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 for five years, the nilment having settled in the joint. Despite constant treatment of the
 most eminent physicians the rheumatism grew worse, and for the last four years
 have been compelled to go about bent half toward the ground. Tn the winter of 1S9J-
 9l, after the rheumatism had settled into it's most chronic form, 1 went to Kansas City
 upon advice of my brother, and for six
 weeks was treated in one of the largest
 and best known dispensaries of that city,
 but without the slightest improvement. Before came home secured strong gal
 vanic battery, this used for months with the same result. In August, 1899, l went to St. Louis, and there conferred with the
 widely known Dr. Mudd of hospital prac- tice 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 I 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 | locomDtor ataxia, rheumatism and paral-
 ysis I ordered some of the pills as an ex- pertinent. 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 a 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. l was free from pain and 1 could enjoy a sound and restful
 nights sleep, something l had not known | for ten years. To-day am practically, and,
 I firmly believe, permanently cured of my
 terrible and agonizing ailment No ma gician of tho Far East ever wrought the
 miracle with bis wand that Dr. Williams | Pink Pills did for me"
 | To verify the story beyond all question of doubt Mir. Woodson made the following affidavit:
 STATE OF MISSOURI, ss COUNTY OF BATES, So' | I, NJ NJ. Woodson, being duly sworn on
 my oath state that the following statements
 are true and correct as yeriIyy believe. | Subscribed and sworn to before me this Sd | day of March, 1894.
 JOIN D. MOORE, Notary Public. 1 Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People i are manufactured by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y., and
 are sold only in boxes bearing the firms 1 trade mark and wrapper, at 50 cents box
 or six boxes for g 30. Bear in mind that Dr. i 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. i Williams Pink Pills may be had of all druggists or direct by mail from Dr. Will ] 1.n,tN ,N IAItp ptV