The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-11-06
HAD TO LET OUT
BELT -Four INCHES
SPITZER SAYS HE FLIRTED WITH
GRAVE FOUR YEARS. TAKE
TANLAc AND GAINS Fl POUNDS.

Before | began taking Tanlac
only weighed 1876 pounds. Today
got on the scales and | tipped the
beam at lisa gain of 81 pounds
I life. That's just exactly what four
bottles of Tanlac did for me. Why,
just look at this belt! l had to let
it out four inches and it's still tight
on me.
about seven years ago com.
cenced having stomach trouble and
attacks of acute indigestion. When
these spells would come on me. l
would just swell up like mule with
the collie and sometimes l would get
as limp as a rag. My breath would
get short and my pulse so weak was
afraid my heart would stop beating.
The stomach pump would have to be
used every time and guess that is
about the only thing that saved me.
Finally my kidneys went back on
me, too, and don't believe / was out
of pain night or day for four long
years, and l actually go so weak
could hardly stand on my feet-much
less work. l had no appetite and
couldn't digest anything. To tell you
the truth, l was slowly starving to
death and | got down to where l only
weighed 20 pounds. Now think of
that grown man only weighing 70
pounds-but it's a fact and hundreds
of people who know me will tell you
the same thing.
Yes, sir, | was almost walking
skeleton and to tell you the truth.
was flirting with the grave, and
guess | would have been there right
now if it hadn't been for Tanlac Just
to show you how sick was couldn't
hit lick of work for four years and
was just about as near dead as any
man you ever saw to be alive.
But look at me now, here am
walking around and feel as we'll as
ever felt in my life. l have a reg
ular job now with The Tennessee Coal
and Iron Company, and can do as good
a days work as anybody. have paid
guess not less than $4,000 in the past
six or seven years for doctors bills
and medicines and have bought
enough medicine from drug stores in
Birmingham to own an interest in one
Of them, and I guess was lucky not
to have an undertaker's bill to wind
up with. Now, then, what have told
you is the truth and if any man has
ever been through the rub, am that
man.
81 have been a painter all of my
life and had painters collie several
times so l guess that had little to
do with my troubles Anyway, there
seemed to be nothing that would
straighten me out. Every time read
about a new medicine would get 1t.
read about Tanlac one day and that's
one time l hit 1t right. That's what
saved my life and it is the only thing
that every helped me a particle.
eat so much now actually get
ashamed of myself and my landlady
said the other day she would have to
raise my board. told her, though,
that she must remember that for four
years she mad money off of me and
that | was only making up for lost
time. And sleep, why, l never would
wake up if they didn't come in and
shake me and I haven't pain about
me now"
The above remarkable statement
was made by w. A. Splitter, a we'll
known employee of the Tennessee
Coal and Iron Company, who lives at
$40 South Sixty-eighth street, Birming-
ham. He is well known and highly re-
spected in the Birmingham district
and is an honest Woodworking man.
Tanlsc sold exclusively II lake
land by Henley & Henley; in Fort
Meade by Warns Pharmacy; in Lake
Wales by NJ. r Anderson: in Ear
tow by Barlow Drug Company; In
Homeland by J. l.. Langham & Son.
in Haines City by Haines City
Pharmacy, and in Winter Haven by
the Anderson Drug Co