The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-20
BIRMINGHAM MAN HAD TOLETOUT HIS BELT FOUR INCHES Spitzer Says He Flirted With the Grave Four Years-Only Weighed
 70 Pounds ( COULDN'T WORK
 FOR FOUR YEARS Gains 21 Pounds on Tanlac and Weighs More Than He Ever Weighed
 in His Life

Before I began taking Tanlac l only weighed 1S5 pounds. Today l got on the scales and l tipped the beam at loo-a gain of 21 pounds-and more than ever weighed in my 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 l commenced having stomach trouble and attacks or 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 I was afraid my heart would stop beat ing. The stomach pump would nave to be used every time and l guess that IS sbout the only thing that saved me.
 Finally my kidneys went back on me- too and don't believe I was out of pain night or day for four long years, ana actually got so weak l could hardly stand on my feet-much less work had no appetite and couldn't digest any thing To tell you the truth, was sioWly starving to death and 1 got down to where 1 only weighed 70 pounds. Now think of that, a grown man only Weign- ing 70 pounds-but it's fact and hun dreds of people who know me Will tell you the same thing.
 ..Yes. sir, I was almost a walking skel- eton and to tell you the truth l was flirting with the grave, and l guess ! would have been there right now If It hadn't been for Tanlac. Just to show vou how sick I was I couldn't hit llck of work for four years and was just a bout as near dead as any man you ever saw to be alive.
 "But look at me now Here I am, waking around and feel as well as ever felt in my life. I have regular Joh now with the Tennessee Coal and Iron company and 1 can do as sooo uaS work as anybody. I have paid out, l guess. not less than $2500 in the past six or seven years for doctors bills and med- icines and have bought enough medicine from drug stores in Birmingham to own ean interest in one of them, ana guess | was lucky not to have an undertaken bill to wind up with. Now then, what have told you is the truth, ana II any man has ever been through the rub am that man.
 ..I have been a painter all of my lite and had painters collie several times, so I guess that had little to do with my troubles. Anyway, there seemed 10 pe nothing that would straighten me out. Every time read about new medicine would get it. I read about Tanlac one dav and that's one time I hit 1t right. That's what saved my life and it is the only thing that ever helped me a par tcle I eat so much now l actually get ashamed of myself and my landlady said the other day she would have to raise my board I told her. though, that she must remember that for four years she maoe money off of me and thatrI was only making up for lost time. And sleep! Why, I never would wake up II they didn't come in and shake me and hay a pain about me now.
 The above remarkable statement was made by w. A. Spitzer well known yemp,oye of the Tennessee Coal and Iron company, who lives at BIO Soutn siNty, aipbth street. Birmingham. He is well known and highly respected in the Blr- mingham district and Is an honest, hard working man.
 Tanlac is sold in Birmingham exclu- sively by Eugene Jacobs Drug store and Pa atton-Pope Drug Co.,, in Ensley by D. w. Morris Drug Co.,. and in Bessemer py Pegram-Patton Drug Co.-Adv.