Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-03-06
WEALTHY PHILANTHROPIST HEAL
CHICAC0'S POOR.
City Is Excited Over the Remarkable Cures of
Mysterious Man Whose Eccentricities
Are Startling.
strange Stories Told Quiet Stranger who Dis
tributes Great quantities O o nd Cloth
ing m Disease without Paw

Chicago, March 5. Special.-The peo-
pie OF this city are greatly excited over
a number of remarkable cures which
have been effected by a wealthy philan-
thropist by the name of Cooper.
His headquarters at The Public Drug
Store is beseiged with crowds of men
and women eager to be cured of their
ills.
Cooper is quiet, gentlemanly person
with the appearance of student, rather
than business man. He is apparently
about thirty one or two years of age. He
first came into public notice by his phil.
anthropic work among the poor. The
large fortune he possesses has made it
possible for him to distribute many wag.
on loads of food and clothing among
those in INDECENT circumstances since his
arrival in Chicago.
The first that was known of Cooper's
power over disease was when Mr. John
Stauber, of 1907 Broadway, Cincinnati,
Ohio, who was in this city on business,
declared that Cooper the philanthropist,
was the same person who saved his life
last March, after he had been given up
to die by his physicians. Mr.. Stauber
stated that last March the doctors told
him he would not live until NJ ", as he
was in terrible condition every one
said he had consumption he had nasty
cough, with frequent hemorrhages,
dizzy, spells, and was so weak that the
least exertion or excitement would COM
pletely PROSTATE him; there were severe
pains in the stomach and back, and his
kidneys were in bad condition.
After my physicians gave me up,
said Mr. Stauber, Mr.. Cooper heard of
my case and called to see me. He left a
peculiar medicine which began taking
and / Immediately began to improve.
My cough stopped, my stomach no long,
er distressed me, and my kidneys were
in perfect condition. gained seventeen
pounds in seven weeks. and today | am
as well as | ever was in my life"
few days after this, Mr.. r. l.. Sidwell
Justice Of The peace living at 1892 Dear
born street, reported that Cooper had
cured him of a severe case of stomach
trouble with few doses of his peculiar
medicine.
His trouble had been of long standing,
and he had tried many different doctors
and medicines without relief. From the
first dose of Cooper's medicine he began
to improve, and is today in apparently
perfect health.
This was followed by the still more re.
markable cure of Mr. Thomas Webster.
employed at the Omaha Packing Comp,
any, and living at $40 South Morgan
street. Mr.. Webster had suffered for
years with pain in his stomach, dizziness,
palpitation of heart, backache and all
other troubles. He came to Cooper's
headquarters, and displayed an enormous
tapeworm, which he said passed from his
system after he had taken few doses of
the Cooper medicine. Mr.. Webster said
all his suffering had left him as If by
magic, and he felt like new being.'
This report of these remarkable cures
flew like wild fire. and the Public Drug
Store, where Cooper is making his head
quarters, is besieged by people suffering
from all manner of ailments.
The physicians OF this city are amazed