The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-06-20

few wears ago wave Of La Grippe
swept over the land and brought thousands
of IL victims 70 the grave. Others who es-
capped the fate lived on ia sorrow ana suffer
ing broken in health and spirit.
Terrible rs was the disease, It's after effects
were vet more appalling, as IL sought out the
weaknesses of the constitution and lett thou-
sands shattered wrecks Of their former selves
"A few days ago Courier Herald represen.
t,uiye while at the thriving little town OF
Akron. Mich, met John L. Smith, 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 gwen
him relief.
W, can do no better than quote his own
words, which are as follows: Apo .a
seven years ago | was taken down with the
Grip and it fastened on me very hard:
For about half the winter i was so bad that ]
could not leave the house. was chilly all
the time and could not get warm. ! ielt rs
| if | was frozen solid, and could only breathe
with great difficulty.
"This condition alternated with sweating
| spells of great violence. There was am al
| most continuous pain, and 1t would SHOOT
| from one part of my body 10 another, win
| great suddenness, and cause me intense SUI
| fering Sometimes II was IN my hlps,theh
| in my legs and again IL would go 10 my
| head and pain me in the eyes IL was 50 III
tense that il even affected my sight.
| ~ called in medical assistance, but TINS
was fruitless, us l 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 rs bad and painful AS 1t was before
| tried them.
Finally. / saw an advertisement of DIR.
| Williams Pink Pills for Pale People, and
read with much Interest or the wonderful
cures that they had ELECTED IN SO many
| eases | had tried so many proprietary prep
| arations that / had no faith In II, but trie,
il. AS | had so many other things, TO see !
| they were Of any use.
Zone day when / was feeling as bad a
usual, | got box Of Pink Pills, and Short.
before going to bed took one pull eanno
| tell YOU what a surprised man l was mex
| morning Then put on nv shoes with ease
a thing that | had not done for forty years
little while after this was so well that
| drove 10 Bay City, Michigan, distance
| twenty-three miles, and was not at all TIRE
| when got there.
~ am now seventy-six years Of age an
| unusually active for man OF my years
| work on my forty-acre farm and eSper1en'
no trouble from the work. want 10 say
0 good word for Pink Pills, as they helped n
| where all else did no good whatever. Sin,
k | nv illness and cure number OF my nelg
y | bors have used them and say that they ha'
4 | been greatly benefited"
!. | Mrs smith, the veterans wife, VINO
. near by. confirmed the words that her IA,
o band had spoken and added her testimol
}; 30 the good that the pills had been TO I
family. The worthy couple are old and
D. spected residents of Tuscola County, win
N | thew have lived for thirty years. Mr.. SIN
u is a sturdy pioneer, and cleared up
a. acre farm near Akron. He yet lives the
!, surrounded by twelve of his thirteen CT
!, dren. Thanks to Pink Pills, he has a pr
r. pect of many years of usefulness.
rs Another sufferer with the same malady '
mt Neil Raymond, prosperous and lead
a. farmer, residing near Colamoiav,i.e, nal
of The Courier Herald. Mr.. Raymond 50
~ "Three years ago last June, one night
Oh f,reJ an attack of paralysis, brought on
ne think, by overwork and as an after. effec
va la grippe. After week my condition
ed so bad that | summoned Pnyslclah !;
i'm | doctored for about six months with but II
MT relief For some time / had seen IN