A Lucky Girl.
At Feaiherston resides a young lady 19 years of age who6e recent welld served stroke of good fortune led a reporter to beg an inu-rview with her for publication in the Wellington Post. Miss Petrea Peterson vary kindly gave the pressman a brief account of her career, stating :— " Few girls have passed through so much suffering a* I have. When I w s lo I became awemio, grew thin and pale-fac d, my lips were bloodless, and I was so weak that I could scarcely wa'k up hi'l. I lo?t my appetite and suffered from heavy headache?. I could not sleep and attack* of cramps came in my legs, the tingling p.iin of which oaused me to scream aloud. I suffered greatly from heart palpitation, on-f after going upstairs I wou d sink into v chair, often too exhausted even to speak. I was also troubled with an affection of the ey«. Different doctors attended me during my 4 years o! illness, but I did not seem to bentfi:. In June, '97 1 read in the Evening Post how a young lady sufferiug lik« myse.f bad been c.red hy Dr. Williams' pink pills, so I commenc- d them. 1 felt better after th» third doso and as I continued with them I regained good beal h. Since then I have been free of headaches, sleeplessness, cramp 3, heart palpitatioo, and all ill health. A day's work bringa no fatigue, and my complexion ia quite rosy. Dr. Williams' pink pills a.so cared my eye affection. IVy have greatly benefit- d several friends, anH my mother bats good cauau to speak highly of them. ' Miss Petersen is exceedingly lucky in baviDg overoome a moat insidious form of disease, to which young women are susceptible. An»mia or bloodl s ness was responsible for her lifeless melancholy state, and the rational cure lay in replenishing t..e impoverished blood. Dr. Williamspink pills inorease and enrich the blood in such a way that they also cure paralysis, rheumatism, sciatica, and nervous disor d«rs in both BexHJ. Tbey an; genuine only with the full name in red ink on pink wrapper, and are sold by chemists and storekeepers and tha Df. Williams' Medicine Co., Wellington, three .-hillings per box. six hoxes sixteen and six, poßt free. Substitutes are dangerous.
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Manawatu Herald, 20 October 1900, Page 3
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385A Lucky Girl. Manawatu Herald, 20 October 1900, Page 3
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