Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-11-27

A few years AGO q 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. II
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 Courier Herald represcn'
| tative, while at the thriving little town Of
Akron, Mich, met John L. Smith, a veteran
| 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 OWL
| words, which are as follows: "Abou,
seven years ago I was taken down with the
Grip, and it fastened on me very hard
| could not leave the house. I Twas chilly oil
| 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:
from one par, of my body to another, with
great suddenness, and cause mo intense suf:
fering. SometimeS it was il my hips, then
in my legs, and agar, it would 60 to my
head aud pain me in the eyes. It was SO In.
tense that it even affected my sight. :.
| i CalICu III UculCd1 ttSSlSluHCC, tllle
was fruitless, rs I received no benefit from
physicians. From then on I 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.
Williams Pink pills for Pale People, and /
read with much interest Of the wonderful
cures that they had effected in so many
cases. had tried so many proprietary prep:
arations that had no filth in it, hut tried
it, as I had so many other things, to see II
they were, Of any use.
usual got y S Ss Of Pink Pills, and shortly
before going to bed took ono pill. cannot
tell you what q surprised man [ was next
morning. Then put on my shoes with ease,
thing that had not done for forty years.
A. little while after this was so well that
drove to Bay City, Michigan, distance o!
| twenty-threc miles, and was not Mt all tired
when got there.
II am now seventy.six years Of age and
| unusually active for man of my years.
work on my forty.acre farm aad experience
| no trouble from the work. want to soy &
good word for Pink Pills., as they helped ne
my illness and cure q number of my neigh
bors have used them, md say that they have
| been greatly benefited"
Mrs. Smith, the veterans wife, who. sa
1 nenr by, confirmed the words that her hus
band had spoken and added her testimon.
to the good that the pills had been to tn
spected residents of 'Tuscola County, wher
they have lived for thirty years. Mr.. Smitl
is sturdy pioneer, and cleared up q 200
acre farm near Akron. He yet lives there
surrounded by twelve. Of his thirteen chill
drsn. Thanks to Pink Pills, he has a pros
pect Of mary years of usefulness.
Another sufferer with the same malady wa
| Neil Raymond, prosperous and leading
farmer, residing near Columbiaville, Lapee
| Co., Michigan. Speaking to n reprcsentativ'
of The Cou,Icr-B Herald, Mr.. Raymond said
"Three years ago last June, one night sui
fered an attack of paralysis, brought on,
think, by overwork and as an after effect o
la grippe. After week my condition wa
so bad that summoned u physician AM
doctored for about six months, with hut littl
relief. For some time had seen in tn