The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-13
CHIEF ENGINEER
 GAINS 40 POUNDS
 ON EIGHT BOTTLES
O. H. Mahaffy Almost Lost Hope of Getting We'll. Takes Tanlac and
 Feels Fine Now

"Tanlac: to my mind is the greatest and grandest medicine in the world said O. H. Mahaffy, chief engineer Of the Life and Casualty building, Nashville, Tenn. Saturday morning of last week.
 T have taken eight bottles of the medicine,' he continued, and have ac- tually gained forty C0) pounds in weight and feel better and stronger than have felt in 25 years.
 My trouble started about two years ago and I have suffered ever since with the worst kind of stomach trouble and indigestion I fell off in weight from 210 pounds to 1892 l am now back to POP. which is almost as much as I weighed before I was taken sick.
 About six months ago I was in Bow ling Green Ky, and while l was there got awful bad off. I called in the doc tor and he told me had an ulcer of the stomach, and that if I was not careful it might turn into cancer. He gave me some medicine and in a few days l re- turned to my home here in Nashville in 9 very weakened condition. told my wife what the doctor said and she was greatly worried, and, of course, was worried, too.
 T didn't seem to get any better and was afraid to eat anything except a lit tie oatmeal and sweet milk, but in spite of everything I could do I just kept going down hill, and got weaker and weaker every day. l got so disheartened that one day I told my employer that it looked like I would have to throw up my job. I was trying to hold on to my job, though, as long as I could, because I had a family to support, and I made up my mind that just as long as I could drag myself around I would stick it out.
 This is just the shape I was in when one day my wife told me about what she had been reading in the papers, and hut a Tanlac, MT. Coopers new medicine, and begged me to try it. She said she had read about & man who had taken 1t, who described my case exactly, and he was getting lots better. This set me to thinking, but had tried nearly all kinds of medicine, so I didn't have much hope of it doing me any good, besides my doctor had already told me would have to be operated on in order to get relief. Something just told me, though, that it might help me, and I decided to get it, so I went to Demoville's and got me a bottle.
 After I had taken 1t for a day orI two I just got so hungry simply had to eat, and I did eat and you can be- lieve me not, nothing seemed to hurt me a particle My wife said to me: Tan lac must be helping you and I said I guess it is from the way I am eating
 ..It wasn't Hong before these awful pains tn my stomach and the small of my back began to leave me- Then, I noticed began to sleep better and l would get up in the mornings full o< life and ready for work.
 .orhe medicine seemed to take hold nuicker than anything l ever saw, and braced me right up. I began to take on more flesh, and as I have already told you, by the time had taken eight bot ties I had gained 40 pounds in weight.
 'If people don't believe what l say. I am right here at work every day, and they can see me- I am telling all my friends about this medicine and hope everybody will hear about it."
 ranlac is sold in Birmingham exclu- sively by the Eugene Jacobs Drug com pany and Patton-Pope Drug company. It is also sold in Bessemer by the Pegram- Patton Drug company and in Ensley by the D. w. Morris Drug company.
 over 100000 bottles sold in first nine months.-adv.