People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1894 — A DETROIT BUILDER. [ARTICLE]

A DETROIT BUILDER.

Be Tells a Remarkable Story of His Life. CAMS TO DETROIT ABOUT FORTY YEARS AGO. L«*l KUey'i Experience Worthy Serlooa Attention. [From the Detroit Evening News ] Away out Gratiot Avenue, far from the din and turmoil of the business center, there are many attractive homes. The intersecting streets are wide, clean and shaded by large leaf-covered trpea, and the people yon meet are typical of Industry, economy and honest toil. There are many pretty residences. but none more inviting in ita neatness and homelike oomfort than that of Mr. Levi Elsey, the well-known builder and contractor, at 74 Moran street Just oft Gratoit. Mr Elsey Is an old resident of Detroit, having moved here about forty years ago. He has erected hundreds of houses In different parts of the city, and points with pride to such buildings as the Newberry St Mo Mullan and Cam paw blocks in which he displayed his ability as a superintendent. “I have seen Detroit grow from a village to a city,” he observed yesterday in conversation with the writer, “and I don’t think there are many towns In America to-day equal to It In point of beauty. I know almost everybody in the city, and an incident which recently happened in my life has interested all my friends. “It is now about eight years ago since I was stricken down with my first case of illness. One cold, blustering day I was down town and through my natural carelessness at that time I permitted myself to get chilled right through. When I arrived home that evening I felt a serious pain in my left leg. I bathed it that night, but by morning I found it had grown worse. In fact, it was so serious that I sent for my family physician, and he informed me that I was suffering from varicose veins. My leg swelled up to double its natural size and the pain increased in volume. The agony was simply awful. I was laid up and never left my bed for eight weeks. At times I felt as though I would grow frantic with pain. My leg was bandaged and was propped up in the bed at an angle of 30 degrees in order to keep the blood from flowing to my extremities.

“I had several doctors attending me, but 1 believe my own judgmenthelped me better than theirs. After a siege of two months I could move around, still I was on the sick list and had to doctor myself for years. I was never really cured and suffered any amount of anguish. “About two years ago I noticed an article In the Evening News about my friend, Mr. Northrup, the Wood ward Avenue merchant. In an interview with him he stated that he had used Dr. Williams’ Pink Pillß for Pale People and that they cured him. I knew him very well, having built his house out on Woodward Ave., and I thought I would follow his suggestion. I must confess I did bo with marvelous success. From the time I began to take the Pink Pills I felt myself growing to be a new man. They acted on me like a magical stimulant. The pain departed and I soon was as strong and healthy as ever. Before trying the Pink Pills I had used any amount or other medicine without any noticeable benefit. But the Pills cured me and 1 was myself again. “When a person finds himself relieved and enjoying health he is apt to expose himself again to another attack of illness. Some three months ago I stopped taking the Pink Pills, and from the day I did so I noticed a change in my condition. A short time since I renewed my habit of taking them with the same beneficial results which met me formerly. lam again nearly as strong as ever, although I am aman about 50 years of age. I tell you, sir, the Pink Pills are a most wonderful medicine, and if they do as well in other cases as they did in mine they are the best in the world. I freely recommend them to any sufferer.” Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills contain, in a condensed form, all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are an unfailing specific for such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus* dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the after effect of la grippe, palpation of the heart, pale and sallow complextions, all forms of weakness either in male or female. Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sent postpaid on receipt of price (50 cents a box, or Bix boxes for s2.so—they are never sold in bulk or by the 100) by addressing Dr. Williams' Medicine Co-,Schenectady, N. Y.