The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1894-08-25
A DETROIT BUILDER.
HE TELLS A. REMARKABLE STORY
~. OF HIS LIFE.

AA0 SAA
.. OF HIS LIFE.
Came to Detroit; About Forty Years
Ago - Levi Elsey's Experience
Worthy Serious Attention.
Away out Gratiot Avenue, far from
the din and turmoil Of the business cen
ter, there are many attractive homes.
The intersecting streets are wide, clean
and shaded by large ~leaf-covered trees,
and the people you meet are typical Of
industry, economy and honest toll.
There are many pretty residences, but
non more inviting in its neatness and
home-like comfort than that OF Mr.. Lew
Elsey, the well-known builder and con-
tractor, at "a Moran street just oil era
tiot. Mr.. Elsey is all CID resident OF
Detroit, having moved hero about forty
years ago. He has erected hundreds Of
houses in different parts OF the city,
and points with pride to such buildings
as the Newberry 6 Mcmillan ana Gam
paw blocks in which he displayed his
ability as a superintendent.
Il have seen Detroit grow from a vii
lage to a city," he observed yesterday
in conversation with the writer, land l
don't think there are many towns in
America to-day equal to it in point OF
beauty. l know almost everybody in
the city, and an incident which recently
happened in my life has interested all
my friends.
ut is now about eight years ago since
r -,1~ -<~rs>1vo nm dawn with n frCf clC0
of illness. One cold, clustering day l
was down town and through my natur.
al carelessness at that time l permitted
myself to get chilled right through.
When I arrived home that evening l felt
a serious pain in my left leg. I bathed
it that night but by morning l found 1t
had grown worse. In fact = was SO
serious that I sent for my family ply
sician, and he informed ME that l was
suffering from %varicose veins. My leg
swelled up to double its natural size
and the pain 'ncr .ased in volume. The
agony was simply awful. l was laid up
and never left my bed for eight weeks.
At times 1 felt as though I would grow
frantic with pain. My leg was bandag-
ed and was propped up in tie bed at
| an angle of 80 degrees in order to keep
the blood from flowing to my extremi-
ties.
Il have had several doctors attending
me, but I believe my OWN judgment
helped me better than theirs. After a
siege of two months 1 could move
around, still I was on the sick list, and
had to doctor myself for years. l was
never really cured ard suffered any
amount of anguish.
"About two years ago I noticed an
! article in the Evening News about my
friend, Mr.. Northrup, the Woodward
avenue merchant. In an interview with
him he stated that he had used DR..
| Williams Pink Pills for Pale People
and that they had cured him. I knew
him very well, having built his house
out Woodward Ave-, and 1 thought l
| would follow his suggestion. / must
| confess I did so with marvellous sue
| cess. From the time I began to take
| the Pink Pills I felt myself growing to
be q new man. They acted on me like
O magical stimulant. The pain depart
| ed and I was soon as strong and
healthy as ever. Before trying the
Pink Pills I had used any amount of
| other medicine without any noticeable
| benefit. But the Pills cured me and /
was myself again.
"When a person finds himself re-
lieved and enjoying health he Is apt to
! ext osa himself again to another attack
| of illness. Some three months ago I
| stopped taking the Pink Pills, and from
| the day I did SO, I noticed a change In
nv condition. A short time since I re-
newed my habit Of taking them with
| the same beneficial results which met
me formerly. I am again nearly as
| strong as ever, although I am a man
about Sc years Of age. / tell you, Sir,
the Pink Pills are a most wonderful
medicine and if they do as well in other
cases as they did in mine they are the
best in the world. I freely recommend
them to any sufferer"
DR.. Williams Pink Pills contain, in
a condensed form, all the elements nee
essary to give new life and richness
| to the blood and restore shattered
nerves. They are an unfailing specific
for such diseases as locOmotor ataxia,
partial paralysis, st. Vitus' dance, scia-
tica. neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous
headache, the after effect of Ia grippe,
palpatation of the heart pale and sal
low c%omplexions, all forms of weak
ness either in male or female. Pink
Pills are sold by. all dealers, or will be
sent post paid OF receipt Of price, go
cents q box. or six boxes for $3.50
they are never sold in bulk or by the
1OO) by addressing Dr. Williams Medi-
cine Co., Schenectady, N. Y.-Detroit
Evening News.