Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-07-27
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OFFERED BY THE DIR. WILLIAMS
MEDICINE COMPANY
For Evidence of Fraud In the Pubii-
cation of Any of Its Testimonials
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yertising Every is not only carefully invest
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legal form and the affidavit placed on file mat
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PeopIe In view OF this, the following remarkabie
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Lewiston Pa Is given without further comment:
Mr. Frank A. Means is well-kno~n farmer oi
Reedsville. Mifin county, Pa. He has been an
elder in the Reedsyille Presbyterian Church for
twenty-nine years, has served three years as
county commissioner and school director for
nine years. He afflicted with creeping paraly-
sis losing the entire Of the lower half OF his
body and for a year a helpless invalid, con-
fined to his bed with no power or feeling In either
/ leg and hysicians had given him up as hopeless
He is now able to walk without even the support
Of a cane and is enthusiastic In his praise of DR..
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that cured him of his dreadful affection. He
writes:
~ had the grip for four winters and as result
my nerves broke down. lost the entire use of
, the lower half of my body. My stomach liver
Kidneys heart head were never affected but
the paralyzed condition Of the lower part OF the
body affected my bladder and bowels. For
whole year lay In bed perfectly helpless with no
rower I'm either limb and the feeling gone that
] couldn't feel a pin run into my legs at all
couldn't turn over in bed without help. To move
me a pulley rugged on the ceiling and wind
lass the floor.
During two years of my afiiction had six
different doctors. but none of them gave me any
relief A specialist from Philadelphia treated me
for three months, but he was of no benefit to me-
These doctors gave me up and said 1t was only
question of a few weeks with me nothing more
could he done. After the physicians had given
me up friend sent pamphlet containing
statements of two who had been afflicted
something like me and who had been cured by the
use Of DIR. Williams Pink Pills. i began taking
them and although my improvement was
slow IL was certain. Now can walk most of the
time without and everybody around here
thinks II is a miracle that can get about as
do Your pills have certainly been u Godsend to
me-
,Signed) F. A MEANS.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th
day of April 1901.
ALBERT S. GIBBONEY,
Notary Public.
This cure of Mr.. Means has attracted much at
tenticn in his neighborhood and people talk OF 1t
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we're. leaves room for doubt but that they VIII
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for locomotor ataxia, st. Vitus dance, neuralgia,
headache and also for all diseases arising
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and all forms of weakness either in male or fe-
male At all druggists direct from DIR. Will
Jams Medicine Company. Schenectady, n. Y, Atty
cents per BOX: six boxes for two dollars and fifty
cents. BE to get the genuine; substitutes
never cured any one.