The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1896-11-06
76 YE:E|a rs Old
ARID VIGOROUS
A Veteran Of the Late War Adds One More Name
to the List Of Striking Cures by Pink
Pills in Michigan.
An oLGFASNGHE0, LARGE FAMILY OF Thirteen CHILDREN.
From the CJurjar-LteruId, Sdginuw. Mich.

4 few years AGO a wave Of La Grippe
swept over the land and b"ou-ht thousands
Of its victims to the grave. Others who CS-
capped the fate lived on III sorrow and suffer
ing, broken in health and spirit.
Terrible Us WIS the disease. its Gt;or effects
were yes more appalling, rs it sought out the
weaknesses of tn" constitution and left thou
sands shattered wrecks Of their fornirr selves.
4 few days ago Il fDmriCy- HPrCN represent
~tative, while At the thriving little town Of
Akron, Mich, met John l.. Smith, a Veteran
of the industrial army, on whose ed head
the disease had fallen, AID he heard hin tell
how he had suffered and what had given
him relief.
We can do no better than quote lis own
words, which are as follows: About
seven years ago | was taken down with the
Grip and it fastened on me very hard.
For about half the winter | was SO bad that !
could not leave the house. was chilly all
the time, and could not get warm. | felt as
if | was frozen solid, and 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 bOdyS to another, with
great suddenness. and cause me intense suf-
fering. Sometimes it was in my hips, then
in my legs, and again it would GO TO my
head and pain me in the eyes. 1t was 50 in
tense that it even affected my sight.
81 called in medical assistance, hut 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 l
tried them.
FINALLY. 7 saw an advertisement of Or.
Williams Pink Pills for Pale People, ard |
read with much interest of the wonderful
cures that they had effected in so many
cases. | had tried SO many proprietary prep
R%ratiOns that | had no faith in it, but tried
it, as | had SO many other things, to see if
they were of any use.
Gone day when I was feeling as bad as
usual, | got a box of Pink Pills. and shortly
before going to bed I took one pill. I cannot
tell you what a surprised man l was next
morning. Then I put on my shoes with ease,
a thing that | had not done for forty years.
A little while after this l was so we'll that ]
drove to Bay City, Michigan, a distance OF
twenty-three miles, and was not at all tired
when l got there.
Il am now se~venty-six years Of age and
unusually active for a man of my years.
work on my forty-acre farm and experience
no trouble from the work. / want TO say q
good word for Pink Pills, as they helped m.
my illness and cure a number of my neigh
bors have used them, and say that they have
been greatly benefited"
Mrs. Smith, the veterans wife, who ga
near by, confirmed the words that her hus
band had spoken and added her testimon,
to the good that the pills had been to tn,
family. The worthy couple are cid and re
spected residents of Tuscola County, whpr
they have lived for thirty years. Mr.. Smi,l
is a sturdy pioneer, and cleared up It 200
acre farm near Akron. He yet lives there
surrounded by twelve Of his thirteen chill
dren. Thanks to Pink Pills, he has q pros
pect of many years of usefulness.
Another sufferer with Ih"s9me mo,a1y va
Neil Raymond, a Prosperous nnl !"tdin
farmer, residing near ColumhiaviIlc. Laveo
Co, Michigan. Speaking TO n reprcs'ntati"
Of The COuri"r-H ernid. Mr.. Raymond said
Three years ago last June. on" ri"ht | III
ferCd on attack Of paralysis, hr"u"h: on,
think, by overwork and us an after rf'"ct {
la grippe. After n week my condition ~,
so bad that | summoned n phvsi"jHr. 49,
doctored for about six months. with 'u.t lrf'
relief. For some time | had seta IA Oh