The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1896-11-04
Is YEARS Old :.
and VIGOROUS
A Veteran of the Late War Adds One More Name
to the List Of Striking Cures by Pink
Pills in Michigan.
An ULDFAsIoNED, LARGE FAMILY OF Thirteen CHILDREN.
From, the Courfer-Eerald, Saginaw, Mich.

A few years ago n wave of La Grippe
swept over the land and brought thousands
of its victims TO the grave. Others who eS-
capped the fate lived on in sorrow and suffer
ing, broken in health and spirit.
Terrible as was the disease, its after effects
were yet more appalling, as it sought out the
weaknesses of the constitution and left thou
sands shattered wrecks of their former selves.
A few days ago a C0urie,-Herdid represer-
tative, while at the thriving little town of
Akron, Mich, met John l.. Smith, a veteran
of the industrial army, on whose aged head
the disease had fallen, and he heard him tell
how he had suffered and what had given
him relief.
We can do no better than quote his own
words, which are as follows: About
seven years ago I was taken down with the
Grip and it fastened Oh me very hard.
For about half the winter | was so bad that |
could not leave the house. was chilly oil
the time, and could not get warm. I felt as
if l was frozen solid, INT could only breathe
with great difficulty.
"This condition alternated with sweating
spells of great violence. There was an al
most continuous pain, and it would shoot
from one part of my body to another, with
fering. Sometimes it was in my hips, then
in my legs, and again it would 60 to my
head and pain me in the eyes. 1t was SO in
tense that it even affected my sight.
II called in medical assistance, but this
was f~ruitless, as | received no benefit from
physicians. From then on tried various
preparations that were recommended to me,
but they did me no good, and my condition
was as bad and painful as it was before !
tried them.
Finally, I saw an advertisement of Or.
Williams Pink Pills for Pale People, and
read with much interest of the wonderful
cures that they had effected in SO many
cases. l had tried so many proprietary prep:
a~rations that l had no faith in it, but tried
it, as l had so many other things, to see il
they were OF any use.
Zone day when I was feeling as bad a.
usual, l got a box of Pink Pills, and shortly
before going to bed l took one pill. I cannO
tell you what a surprised man | was mex
morning. Then | put on my shoes with ease
q thing that | had not done for forty years
A little while after this was so well that
drove to Bay City, Michigan, q distance o
t~wenty-three miles, and was not at all tiret
when | got there. .
Il am now seventy-six years of age ant
unusually active for a man of my years.
work on my forty-acre farm and experience
no trouble from the work. want to soy
good word for Pink Pills. as they helped m
where all else did no good whatever. Sine
my illness and cure a number of my neigh
bors have used them; and say that they hav
been greatly benefited"
Mrs. Smith, the veterans wife, who 50
near by, confirmed the words that her hu.
band had spoken and added her test;mcn
to the good that the pills had been to tn
family: The worthy couple are cid and n
spected residents of Tuscola County, wher
they have lived for thirty years. Mr.. Smit
is q sturdy pioneer, and cleared M n 2N
acre farm near Akron. lie yet lives Their
surrounded by twelve of his thirteen chi
dren. Thanks to Pink Pills, he has q pro
pect OF many years Of usefulness.
mother cuHarar With tho C,n, ~ p,o1aly VI,
Neil Raymond, a prosperous end l"adir
farmer, residing near Columbiavillc. Iare'
CO., Michigan. Speaking TO "a representa-,
of The Courier Herald. Mr.. Raymond sale
"Three years ago last June. one nigh, I su
t tsnl On n, attack OF p snI ! 'rf" a. te "n'
la grippe. After a week my condition W
so bad that I summoned a physician, ~
doctored for about six months. with nut liz
relief. For some time | had seen IN Il