Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-06-19
WOUNDED IN THE WAR
Shot in the Abdomen at Cumber-
land Gap.
Blind, Rheumatic and Dropsical. A
Union Colonel Is Given Over to Die.
How the Old Soldier Gave
Azrael the Slip.

From the News, Barboursville. KY.
In the year 1868, while in command of q
Union regiment at Cumberland Gap, Colonel
Messer, now of Flat Licks, Kentucky, re-
ceived a severe gunshot wound in his abdo-
men. In few months he was again In the
saddle, but soon was obliged to undergo fur
came so serious that in the winter of 1868 he
returned to his home, and was never again
fit for active service. During the years that
have since passed, Colonel Messer has been
confirmed invalid from the effect of his
wound, and has been under the constant care
of the local physicians, not improving, but
growing worse as the years rolled on: HIS
Almost blind, legs swollen, so that he was
unable to walk, the doctors who could do
nothing to arrest the progress OF the disease,
impossible.
The old soldier did not half believe his
physicians, but said that since they could
do nothing for him, he would, upon an old
friend strong recommendation, try DIR. Will
Eams' Pink Pills for Pale People. The
first box was taken by Col: Messer according
he felt much easier and more comfortable,
that several other boxes were procured, and
the swelling in his legs disappeared, and
with it the fierce rheumatic pains with which
he had long suffered. Strangest of all, his
eyesight, which for SO many years had been
In all, Colonel Messer took DR.. Williams
Pink Pills six months, and then was thor
Oughly cured. lie now is a hedlthy-lOOklng
man, rides on horseback, and stands as
much fatigue any man of his age.
The Colonel, since his recovery, is never
tired of descanting on the virtues of these
pills, and every advertisement that he finds
he carefully clips, and sends to some sick
friend neighbor, with the assurance that
they will cure him.
The high standing of Colonel Messer, and
his remarkable recovery, makes this report
more than usually interesting, and when it
was received at the office of the DR.. Will
liam lodi n wa rafa rod n MacSrS
Phipps & Herndon, the well-known drug
gists of Barbourville, KY, for verifcation.
We append the reply:
Barbourville, KY, Aug. Is, 1896.
DIR. Williams Med. Co.,
Schenectady, n. Y.
Gentlemen:-Yours of August 14th to
hand, enquiring about testimonial written
by Mr.. Sampson concerning Colonel Messer,
of Flat Lick, KY, will say that the cure of
Colonel Messer considered almost mi
raculous, and he claims Pink Pills did it.
Yours truly,
PHIPPS & HERNDON.
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