Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1894 — A DETROIT BUILDER. [ARTICLE]

A DETROIT BUILDER.

HE TELLS A REMARKABLE STORY OF HIS LIFE. CAME TO DETROIT ABOUT FORTY *■ YEARS AGO. Levi Eltey’s Experience Worthy Serious Attention. (From the Detroit Evening Few:.} Away out Gratiot avenue, tar frci ij the din and turmoil of the busine.-.a eenter, there are many attractive homes. The intersecting streets are fvido. clean and shaded by large leaf(:overed l.roos, and the, people you meet are typical of industry, economy and "honest toil. There are many pretty residences, but none more inviting in its neatness and heme-like comfort than that of Mr. T.evi Ekey, the wellknown buiid er and contractor, at 74 Moran street, just off Gratiot. 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, find points with pride to such buildings as the Newberry & McMuilan and C-ampau blocks, in he displayed ability -as “ I 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 every* body in the city, and an incident which recently happened in my life has interested all my friends. ■ “It is now about eight years ago pince I was stricken down with my first case of illness. One cold, blustering day I was down town, and through tny 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 J found it had grown worse. In fact, it was so serious that I sent for piy family physician, and he informed znc 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 fiwful. 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 “I. had several doctors attending me., but I believe my own judgment helped me better than theirs. After a siege of two months I could move around: still 1 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 Woodward avenue merchant. In an interview with him he stated that he had used Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, and that they cured him. I knew him very well, having built hie house out Woodward avenue, and I thought I would follow his suggestion. I must confess I did so with marvelous success. From the time I began to take the Pink Pills I felt myself growing to be a new man. The; 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 of other medicine without any noticeable benefit. the Pills cured mo,and 1u as myself again! ~ “When a person finds himself relieved and en oying health he is apt to expose himself again to another attack of illness. Some three months ago ! 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. I am again nearly as strong as ever, although I am a man about sfi years of age. 1 tell you, sir, the P.nk Pills are a most wonderful medicine, and if they.do aa -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 for Pale People contain, in a condensed form, all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattere:! nerves. They a l ® an unfailing specific for such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St Vitus’ dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the after effects of la grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale ana saiiow complexions, and all forms of weakness, cither 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 six boxes for s:’.s0 —they are never sold-in bulk or by the 100), by addressing Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y. The nursery is the house's heart, the library its brains, the kitchen its stomach and the parlor its good clothes.