Restored To Life Aras Campbell is one of the best known citizens of Charlevoix town and county, Michigan. Friday, he died. There is no question as to this - he died and his physician, one of the most regular of regular practitioners, admitted the fact.
Mrs. Campbell; as a dernier resort, sent out for Mrs. Sweatland, a metaphysical curer. However, when she reached the house decomposition had already set in, possibly growing out of the nature and complexity of the disease from which Mr. Campbell had suffered and the stench emitted from the body was fearful.
Mrs. Sweatland, who is an intelligent, sad-eyed lady, ordered disinfectants to be liberally applied to the room and she placed herself beside the corpse. For twenty minutes she gently rubbed the body, muttering prayers of incantations meanwhile and then the dead man's eyes opened. He tried to speak but was unable. The rubbing process was continued twenty minutes longer, at the end of which time the corpse sat upright and in three hours was eating with his family. Mr. Campbell is now enjoying greater freedom from pain than at anytime since his last illness and his physician, who admitted that he was dead, expresses himself as nonplussed.

This story, along with other news of the day appears on page 8 of The Evening Telegram, Toronto, Saturday, August 21, 1886 as reprinted from the Cincinatti Enquirer.
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