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Another of Neweii's lightning Cures

Another Of Neweii's lightning Cures
The press dispatches tell of another
extraordinary cure performed at ware,
Mass. Saturday by Bradley G. Newell
the blacksmith healer from jackson
vile. After leaving his hotel on his
way to the train TO return to his home
in Vermont. he stopped at Spencer :
drug store and was drinking glass OF
soda when John Walsh OF Warren,
agent for an insurance company, hob,
bled into the store on crutches ana
wanted TO see Newell about his leg.
After few words Walsh sat down ON
a stool. Newell laid hands ON the sore
leg and held grip of the mans hand
for about 20 seconds. He then told
Walsh that he had to catch Il train
and predicted that the man was helped.
About half an hour after Newell had
left town Walsh was walking around
the streets and had thrown away the
crutches and wac the happiest man in
town. Later in the day sister Of
Walsh, who resides in Thorndike, was
at Ware, and heard the story of her
brothers. cure. She san that her
brother was hurt March 9 and had
paid $500 to physicians since that time
without receiving any benefit and had
spent some time in the Massachusetts,
hospital Newell is reported to have
stated that he has made go, 600 since
January |.
Newell says in Boston Globe inter
view:
81 have paid off mortgage OF $500 on my
property in jacksonville, and ! have few
thousand dollars in addition. know no more
about my power nor where i came from than
did at the start. ! am an Ignorant man. My
father, Charles Newell of Rowe, formerly a rep.
resentative in the Massachusetts legislature,
has always claimed that my power was freak
Of nature and perhaps 1t Is so far rs can
see, my power comes nearer hyphotism than
anything else.
had peculiar experience in Norwich, Conn,
short time ago which convinced me II was
more than magnetism. was waiting for
along and chatted with u policeman. lie was
doubled over with rheumatic pains; ! said to
myself now is my time to see whether 1t is |
Imagination that helps the people or whether II |!
IL something more than this.
went up TO the Old man and said: 81 am Kind |
of queer person and Just now am trying TO
! held his hands in mine for a few minutes and
asked him then to see II he could straigbten ont /
his body. He said he would try, and to his as
constituent he Strengthened out and said he was
well"
DIR. willard Resigns.
Dr. Horace NJ. W llldru. principal
of the Howard seminary, at West
Mass. mas sent in his
resignation to the trustees of that in
stitution, to take effect at the close Of
the present school te. m, June II. 1t is
a result Of financial misunderstood
ing with the trustees. Mr.. Willard
has purchased the old Quincy mansion
at Quincy aud will open private
school there 10 the fall.
DIR. Willard is graduate of Brown
and for many years was
of the Saxton River acad
envy. lie went to West Bridgewater
in 1890 and assumed charge Of the
Howard seminary when it was on very
poor financial footing, and by peritent
sork he built up the school until to-
lay it ranks among the foremost in
stitutions in the state,
A pension of IS month has been
granted TO Sophia J. Miller of West
rownshend with arrears from June
90
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