● ● ● that flair for style which never left her. “I bought me a little black and white straw bonnet,” she wrote, “just the style and paid but 1.25 for it, trimmed with the green ribbon I had, & that is all it cost me, and many have admired it.”74
On May 13th an advertisement appeared in the Taunton papers:
TO THE SICK.
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DR. H. S. CRAFTS,
Would say unhesitatingly, I can cure you, and have never failed to cure Consumption, Catarrh, Scrofula, Dyspepsia and Rheumatism, with many other forms of disease and weakness, in which I am especially successful. If you give me a fair trial and are not helped, I will refund your money.
The following certificate is from a lady in this city, Mrs. Raymond:— H. S. CRAFTS, Office 90, Main street:
In giving to the public a statement of my peculiar case, I am actuated by a motive to point out the way to others of relief from their sufferings. About 12 years since I had an internal abscess, that not only threatened to destroy my life at that time, but which has ever since continued to affect me in some form or another internally, making life well nigh a burden to bear. I have consulted many physicians, all of whom have failed to relieve me of this suffering, and in this condition, while growing worse year by year, about three weeks ago I applied to Dr. H. S. Crafts, who, to my own, and the utter astonishment of my friends, has, in this incredibly short time, without medicines or painful applications, cured me of this chronic malady. In conclusion, I can only quote the words of a patient who was healed by his method of cure: “I am convinced he is a skillful Physician, whose cures are not the result of accident.” I reside in Taunton, at Weir street Railroad Crossing.
ABIGAIL RAYMOND.
Taunton, May 13, 1867.75
74 Mary Baker Patterson to Martha Baker Pilsbury, 28 April 1867, L11153, MBEL.
75 [“To the Sick,” Taunton Daily Gazette, 14 May 1867, p. 3.]