Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-01-04
FATHER OF SIXTEEN
SAYS TANLAC SAVED
HIM FROM THE GRAVE
Thought His End Was Near
and Told His Wife to Put
Children in Odd Fellows
Home When He Died

What is probably the most remark
able Endorsement ever given a proprie-
tary medicine was the statement made
recently by n. J. Williams. a coal
miner at the Tennessee Coal & Iron
Co, mine No. S, near Fairfield. Ala,
in the Birmingham district.
The story of his wonderful restora-
tion to health was told in his own
words. and is profoundly interesting,
His statement follows:
II am 81 years of age. and am the
fasaer Of sixteen children, eight living
and eigh. iea6 I came to Birming-
ham from East Tennessee. and have
followed mining for a good many years,
About two years ago I took sick
The doctors at first thought had Tape
worm. then Hookworm, and finally de-
ci6ed il was Peilagra. ] took treatment
from a weII-known Alabama Pellagra
Cure but got no benefit. The doctors
finaIIy-tOld me they couldn't do me any
good. and I quit going to see them.
II suffered from a sort of numb feel
ing all the time in my back and was
dizzy-headed. i couldn't stoop over, or
stand on my feet for any length OF time,
and couldn't hardly eat anything and
nothing tasted good. In fact. l was
slowly starving to death.
45 pounds in weight. / used TO weigh,
when was well. 13S pounds, and got
down TO where / only weighed 90
pounds. and was almost walking skele-
ton.
II finally decided that there was no
more hope for me in this life, and /
gave my ring to my wife and told her
TO put the children in the Odd Fellows
Home when I died.
This Is Just the shape 1 was in
when, one day. my little daughter said:
Papa, why don't you try that new
medicine everybody is talking about?
Il has helped so many people, II
might help YOU OF course 1 had no
faith In anything. but just TO please
the family, ] made one more trial and
got this Tanlac. May the good Lord
bless the day / got this medicine, for
IL was my salvation
81 got relief from the first bottle,
and I began TO eat and pick up right
from the start I am now on my NTH
bottle, and have actually gained back
Is pounds. and now weigh Ito. IL
just looked like the more L took the
better / got. and keep on picking up
every day.
81 went over to the mines yesterday
and made arrangements to go back TO
walk around wherever / want TO go
something / have not been able to do
for over q year, and that is a fact
Tanlac mighty nigh raised me from
the dead, that's what IL done for me
II you don't believe what ] have told
you. Just ask any of the men around
mine No. s, and they viii all tell you
the tx / was in, and how. much better
Of / am now.
Thank God / viii soon be able to
earn a living for my family, and will
owe il all to this medicine, Tanlac. j
have just written to a daughter OF
mine in LaFollette, Tenn, who needs
a medicine like this. and / want her TO
take il and get Well
Il doa't believe now / ever had Pei
lagra, because 1 never did have any
breaking out OF any kind i don't be-
neve I had HookwOrm. either, but
whatever 1t was. this Tanlac has GER
tafnIy fixed me. / don't reckon there
ever was a medicine on earth ike
Tanlac. j viii always bless the day l
bought this medicine
Tanlac is sold BY leading druggists
in principal cities throughout the
south.-(Advtl