The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-11-27
A CHILD'S RECOVERY
From Paralysis and Six Years OF
Commissions.
Little Fannie Adams, Of Umatilla
Cured of . Dreadful Malady-A
Cure Of Unusual Interest-A
Reporter Investigates.


From the Lake Region, Eustis, Fla.
For some time past the Like Region has
been receiving reports from Umatilla, Fla,
of an almost miraculous cure that had been
effected in the case of Fannie Adams, a
last Saturday representative of this paper
made q trip to Umatilla for the purpose Of
determining the authenticity of the same.
The family live short distance from the
village, where it was found that the people
were cognizant of the cure which had been
effected, and were rejoicing with the family
in their new found happiness. The father,
A. j. Adams, is a. Woodworking honest
farmer from east Tennessee, and the family
came to Florida four years ago in the hope
that change of climate would be of benefit
to their afflicted child. Much of their earn
ings have gone for doctors bills, whose
services proved unavailing. The representa-
tive was greeted by Mrs. Adams, from whom
he gained the story of her great trial.
Fannie, the youngest child, was born in
east tennessee, and was seven years old on
the third day of February, 1897. When ten
months old she was stricken with paralysis.
which affected the entire left SIDE This
stroke of paralysis was followed by convul.
sions, and from the time little Fannie was
ten months old until February, 1897, there
was not single day or night that she did
nature: Not a single convulsion, but al.
ways three or four, and sometimes a. high
as ten in one day.
The family was all broken down with
care, and Mrs. Adams states that for one
year she did not go into her kitchen to super
intend her household work. All the fingers
OF the right hand of the little girl are en-
iarged and misshapen, caused by her bit
ing them during the fearful suffering. The
case baffied the skill of the best physicians,
and they were frank to say that they could
not determine the cause, or prescribe a
remedy to aid the afflicted child.
But what change now in that household;
for little Fannie has recently been released
from her six years of agony, which brings the
In January, this year, Mrs. Adams, who
had purchased some Of DR.. Williams Pink
Pills for Pale People for her fourteen wear
old daughter, determined to try their effect
upon little Fannie. After three or four
doses, she noted an improvement and she
then told the father what she had done.
de at once went to the village and bought
another box, and up to this time six boxes
have been used. The first pills, Mrs.
Adams states, were given in January, the
latter part, and certainly not earlier than
the fifteenth or twentieth, and the child had
her last CONFUSION on February Sd, nearly
three months ago. Her general condition
Aaoc Hupi ossu III every way, ana IL was not
. month after the first pills were taken
when she began to walk without assistance.
The pills were bought at the drug store
OF Dr. Shelton, in Umatilla. In answer
TO the question, did he, to his personal
knowledge, know that the remedy had bene.
fted Fannie Adams, as was stated by her
parents, the doctor said that he was rec,,-
lar practicing physician, and as such was
10th TO recommend any proprietary medi-
cine, but still he was ready to do Justice to
ALI men, and he did know that DIR. vii.
liams' Pink Pills for Pale People had bene.
fitted Fannie. Adams. and also volunteered
the information that he knew of other chill.
dren in the village who had been benefited
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