Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-01-29

= 4 ~ yssss ago . wave Of L. Grippe
swept over the land and brought thousands
Of is victims 70 the grave. Others who e.
capped the fate lived on in sorrow and suffer.
ing, broken in health and spirit.
Terrible = was the disease, its after effect.
wesfns:sss q ths oonstitation ana ieft thou.
sands shattered wrecks Of their former selves
A few days ago Courier Herald represen'
tative, while q the thriving little town o.
Akron, Mich, met John L. Smith, veteran
Of the industrial army, on whose aged head
the disease had ALLEN, and he heard him tell
S sSn ,a +: bad suffered and what had given
We can do no better than quote his own
words, which are ~ follows: "About
seven years ago was taken down with the
Grip and It fastened on me very hard.
For about half the winter was 20 bad that
could not leave the house. Twas chilly oil
the time, and could not get warm. l felt as
With great difficulty.
"This condition alternated with sweating
spells 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 sui.
ftering. Sometimes it was in my hips, then
head and pain me in the eyes. It was so in.
tense that it even affected my sight.
!, ''I called in medical assistance, but this
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.
Finally, 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 50 many proprietary prep:
arations that had no faith in it, but tried
it, as had 10 many other things, to see if
Gone day when was feeling as bad a.
usual, I got a box of Pink Pills, and shortly
before going to bed took one pill. cannot
tell you what surprised man was next
morning Then put on my shoes with ease,
q thing that had not done for forty years.
A little while after this / was so we'll that
drove to Bay City, Michigan, a distance Of
twenty-three miles, and was not at all tired
when got there. ,&@ ~. .
II am now seventy-six years Of age and
unusually active for a man of my years.
work on my forty-acre farm and experience
no trouble from the work. ! want to say a
good word for Pink Pills, as they helped me
where all else did no good whatever. Since
Illness and N, nSmSsf ct neigh 1.
Been Been greatly ss Ss Sensdted. - 90 ~
Ms. 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 fbr thirty years MI. Smith
Is : sturdy pioneer, and cleared up Z. 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. ,4r;,
Another sufererwith the same malady va,
Neil Raymond, . prosperous and leading
Co., Michigan. Speaking to- o representative
of The Cburicr- Herald Mr.. Raymond said
"Three years ago last June, one night suf
fered an attack Of paralysis, brought on,
think, by overwork and as an after effect o.
Ia grippe. After week my condition va!
90 bud that 1 summoned "a physician and
doctored for about nix months, with but littl,
relief For some time lad seen in tn