Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1912 — Artificial Limbs On Display At A. F. Leng’s Drag Store. [ARTICLE]

Artificial Limbs On Display At A. F. Leng’s Drag Store.

S. F. Wood has placed in a window at A. F. Long’s drug store two artificial limbs, which will doubtless attract attention from many. They are small limbs but the company of which he is the head are making limbs to order of any size and Mr. Long is the local agent. Mr. Wood is a former Jasper county boy and lost his right leg while working on the Jim Yeoman farm some fifteen years ago. He has been engaged in the limb making business for several years and makes a limb with excellent joints and he guarantees to keep them in condition for five years and states that they should last for ten or twelve years. While here he will look after several jobs. An effort is being started to procure a limb for Henry Neville, whose condition is now such that be can get about on crutches and who can wear the limb without injury after ten days. Mr. Neville is of course, without funds, having depended upon his daily labor for a living prior to the time when he was incapacitated by the loss of bis leg. Many have signified their willingness to contribute toward this end and it is probable that a paper will be passed today or tomorrow. . Should anyone care to communicate with Mr. Wood, bis home address Is 161 Griswold St., Detroit, Mich.