Show ST L 0 U I 1 s IS S 11 II 1 blied 2 0 U 11 T U ir r I 1 COOPER IX EXCISES C IT I 1 6 PEOPLE OF THAT CITY young mans klans have seemingly done all that was claim clfo them I 1 st louis april 15 inthis tats city is at present I 1 in n th the 0 mi midst d st 0 of f an excitement beyond anything that it has experienced in recent years old and young rich and poor all seem to have become beside themselves over an individual who was a stranger to st 61 louis until two weeks ago the man who has created all this turmoil Is L T cooper president of the cooper coper medicine co of dayton ohio who Is at present introducing his preparations in this city for the first time cooper is a man about thirty years of age who has acquired a fortune within the past two years by the sale of some preparations of wh which ich he is the owner reports from eastern cities that preceded the young roan man here wore were of the most startling nature many of the leading dallies dailies going EO so far as to state that ho he had nightly cured in pub lie ile places deafness of years standing with one of his preparations the physicians of the east contradicted this statement claiming the thing to bo be impossible but the facts seemed to bear out the sta statement temen t that cooper actually did so in consequence people ale flocked to him by thousands and his preparations sold like wildfire many of these stories were regarded as fictitious in st louis and until cooper actually reached this cit city little attention was paid to them hardly ardly had the young oung man arrived however had he began demonstrations as he alls calls thorn them in public and dally daily met people afflicted with deafness and with a single application of one of his preparations actually made deaf people hear again agal in addition to ahls work cooper advanced the theory that stomach trouble was the foundation of nine out of ten diseases an and claimed to have a 11 preparation tion th thai would restore the stomach to working order and thus get rid of such troubles as rheumatism and affections of the kidneys and liver in about two weeks time this statement seems to have been borne out by the alie remarkable results obtained through the he use of this preparation and now all st louis is apparently patently ly mad over the young man his ills headquarters resemble a veritable stampede thousands of people are visiting him each day and the druggists are selling his medicines in enormous quantities what seems to make cooper still more popular is the fact that he practices extensive charitable work and has already dis dispensed penned 8 small fortune among among the poor ol 01 this city how long the tremendous interest in cooper will last Is hard bard to estimate at present there seems to be no sign of a letup let up physicians claim it to td be a fad that will die out as coon as cooper leaves in justice to him however it must he said that he already seems to have accomplished a great deal for tho the sick of this city with his preparations |