The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-13
Nude Money in Cancer "Curcs."

Made Money III CHuceT ''SuTcS.'
webster said that William a. Rookie
Teller made a lot of money by treat
Ing cancer patients. He advertised to
cure cancer. and travelled all over the
His handbills, which would
be stuck up in the post, Office OF a small
town. We're printed with plank space
left for the name ofethat town. Uncle
Joe" quoted one that he had seen in
the Wells House, at East Richfcld,
Summit county, O., in 1856. This read
as follows:
The Celebrated Cancer Specialist.
Will Be Here on ------ for One Day,
At This Hotel.
All cases of Cancer cured. unless they
are too far gone and they can be
Greatly Benefited.
when they didn't have cancer" said
Uncle joe Webster to the reporter,
he'd do them some good and then lsy'd
advertise him. One woman, he told mo
himself, only had burst blood vessel
and she sounded his praises as a can
Ger curer for years afterward. When
they did have cancer and he didn't
cure 'em he'd get the $50 anyhow.
That was his fee.
But Doc was always making trips
to Iowa in those days. He'd tell me
about them when he got back. When
ever he had got any money he'd go to
Iowa and lend it out at twelve per
cent. He never lent a cent to any man.
he thought would be able to pay up.
When the money wasn't paid and The
farmer wanted to renew the note Doc
would foreclose. He accumulated big
lot OF Iowa land III that way. When
he moved away from here and went 70
Cleveland and bought that house on
Euclid Avenue from Burkett he was
supposed TO be quite rich for those
times
Doc was a great joker always and
glad to carry game for him or to set up
marks He always wanted to shoot. II
there weren't any birds or squirrels
he'd shoot at a mark, md nothing tick
led him so much as to win. He al
ways wanted to beat"
The Rockefeller Reunion.
The Lass authentica ted, time that
William A. Rockefeller was seen by his
old friends and neighbours was in Sep
TENDER, 1902, when John D. arranged
his Forest Hill estate in Cleveland.
Uncle Joe" Webster. William Humis-
ton and a dozen of the old Strongsvllle
farmers We're there. The Cleveland
celebration. Wilnam A.. Rockefeller
and his two brothers, Egbert and Nor
man. We're there. Egbert has since died
IN Tioga county, n. y. Norman Is said
70 live somewhere near Buffalo. but
search for him in Erie county was rs
According to all accounts doc
Rockefeller was the life and soul ST
the reunion. He told stories that made
his son. John D., abruptly turn from
his fathers strongsvlle friends wee
shouting with laughter. John D. mad
provided pigeons" whether clay cr
live birds, the lapse Of time makes ii
impossible to say with accuracy. and
all the old men tried their hands with
the guns. John D. Rockefeller's "a
Their shot better than all the rest Of
his own cronies. and he was IN great
humor all day -
More than once when his profanity
an inspection of another part OF the
grounds, the aged father said to his
old,time neighbors with a chuckle:
John doesn't like to hear that kind
OF talK. John was always quiet, you
The Father Has Asthma.
Among the few of the old-timers
from strongsville who did not attend
the reunion was Mrs. Mar. Humiston
Norton. of Hartland, o.. who Is a niece
OF William a. Rockefeller. being n
Hf t,,; of his sister. Mrs Norton is
iston farm and her husband Horace la
not prospered like the relatives re-
naming in Strongsville.
I'd didn't go to the reunion" she said
& hS--rN WIN ItDOIleT, tDuC IL
Cousin Frank a few months afterward J.
and he told me that Uncle Docs asth.
ma was so bad that he had to hurry
nam out of Cleveland as soon as it
was over" =
when William A. Rockefeller used to
| tell all the members of the family
that he liked to skin the boys so as
heartily as she, told the story already
| picked up in Strongsville of John %
buying his time" for $40, and then
being made to pay board to his father
Mrs: Fanny Humiston is daughter
| OF William Humiston. Jr., and a grand
| Daughter of William a. Roekefeller's
sister s;. Her father, who still lives al
Strongville, is beneficiary Of John y
Rockefeller, and looks after the ami.
mails which John d. keeps on his For.
est Hill estate Humston. who is a
good farmer. bought the Jersey cows
| that John d. always keeps for the mill,
that has so built him up in tho last
| few years. (
When The World reporter was II
strongville Humiston was. buying some
the Forest Hill place, at which John D
was expected to arrive soon.
Mrs, Evans for several years was the
paid companion OF Mrs. William Rudd
and John d. Rockefeller's only sister
Her father William Humlston, for &
l long time was believed to be a sharel
of the secret of William A. Rockefel
Teller.
Mrs, Rudd told me-" said Mrs, Evans
that only the four children. Johr
D.. William, Frank and herself--knew
me where, the old man lived, and
| 7 have often talked with my father
about II, and am satisfied now tina