Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-10-10
rs 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 OLDFAsHOHED, LARGE FAMILY OF THIRTEEN CHILDREN.


A few years ago wave Of In 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 rs 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 Courier-Herdld represen.
tative, 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 given
him relief.
We can 10 no better than quote his own
words, which are as follows: About
leycn 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 alternato1 with sweating
eaals of great violence. There was an al
most continuous pain, and it would shoot
from one part of my body to another, with
great suddenness, and cause me intense suf-
ferng. Sometimes il WAS in my hips, then
in my legs, and agaia it would go to my
head and pain me in tie eyes. 1t was so in
tense that ii even affected my sight.
81 called in medical assistance, but this
was frrit tless, rs / received no benefit from
physicians. From then on ! tried various
prcDHrItiOns that were recommended to HE,
but they did me no good, and my condition
was as lad and painful US it was before l
tried them.
Finally, I saw an advertisement of DR..
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 r. many proprietary prep.
t.rations that l hau no faith in it, but tried
.t, rs had 80 many other things, to see If
they were of any use. g,
Conc day when was feeling as bad as
usual, 1 got box Of Pink Pills, and shortly
before going to bed took one pill. cannot
tell you what a surprised man l was next
morning. Then | put on my shoes with case,
a thing that l had not done for forty years.
A little while after this was so well that
drove to Bay City, Michigan, a distance of
twenty-three miles, and was not at oil tired
when got there. ...-
% l am now seventy-six years of age and
unusually active for man of my years. /
work on my forty-acre farm and experience
no trouble from the work. l want to say u
Yood word for Pink Pills, as they helped me
where all else. did no good whatever. Since
my illness and cure O number of my neigh
bors have used them, and say that they have
been greatly benefited
Mrs. Smith, the veterans wife, who sat
near by confirmed the words that her hus-
band had spoken and added her testimony
to the good that the pills had been to the
family. The worthy couple are old and re-
spected residents of Tuscola County, where
they have lived for thirty years. Mr.. Smith
is q sturdy pioneer, and cleared up O 200
acre farm near Akron. He yet lives there
surrounded by twelve of his thirteen chill,
dren. Thanks to Pink Pills, he has pros.
pect of many years of usefulness.
Another sufferer with the same malady was
Neil Raymond, a prosperous and leading
farmer, residing near Columbiaville, Lapeer
Co., Michigan Speaking to q representative
of The Courier 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 ol
Ia grippe. After a week my condition was
doctored for about six months, with but little
Sclief For some time had seen in the