Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-20
birmingham NAH
HAD To LET OUT HIS
BELT FOUR INCHES
w. A. Splitter Says He FlIrted
With Grave Four Years.
Only Weighed 70 Pounds.
Takes TanIaC and Gains Il
Pounds

-.Esrgr. began taking Tanlac
onIv weighed 50 pounds. TodSs J LOT
On the scales sud tipped the peln ..
I56-a ssin Of q pounds-and more
tbau + ever weighed in my life. That's
lust exactly y hat four bottles OF Tan
IN, did flr ne. Why just loJk al Inis
belt, / had TO let il out four inches
and its sJiH tight on me
About seven years ago j commenced
having stomach trouble and attacks OF
acute indigestion When these spelis
would come on me I would just swell
nm like A mule with the collie and some
times I would get as limp as a rag. My
breath would get short and my pulse 50
weak 7 was afraid my heart would stop
beating. The stomach pump would
have 10 be used every time and I guess
that j. about the only thing that saved
me
FINALLY ms kidneys went back on
me. too. and / don't believe ! was out
OF pain night or day for four Ions years.
and I actually got so weak could
hardly stand on my feet-much less
work I was slowly starving to death
and I got 10 where / only weighed 40
pounds. Now think Of that. grown
man only weighing 20 pOunds-but its
a fact and hundreds. of people who
hAaOM lAE VIII ANaA 1N-A AAAN 1%AAlAN N+--A-1'
Yes. sir. was almost a walking
skeleton and TO tell you the truth
was flirting with the grave. and l guess
I would have been there right now if
IL Hadn't been for Tanlac. Just TO show
you how sick I was ] couldn't hit
lick Of work for four years and was
lust about as near dead as any man
yOu ever saw TO be alive
But look at me now. here I am
walking around and feel as well as l
ever felt in my life. / have regular
job now with The Tennessee Coal &
Iron Company and I can 10 as good
days work as anybody | have paid
out I guess not less than S2.50O in the
past six o. seven years for doctors
bills and medicines and have bought
enough medicine from drug stores in
Birmingham 10 own an interest i'm one
OF them. and ] guess / was lucky not
10 have an undertaker's bill 10 wind up
with. Now then. what I have told you
Is the truth and II any man has ever
been through the rub / am that man.
Il have been a painter all my life and
had painters collie several times so
guess that had little 10 do with my
troubles Anyway there seemed to be
nothing that would straighten me out.
Every time 1 read about a new medi-
cine I would get H. ] read about Tan
lac one day and that's one time I hit
IL right That's what saved my life
and IL Is the only thing that ever help
ed me a particle I eat so much now
actually get ashamed Of myself and
my landlady said the other day she
would have 10 raise my board. I told
her. though. that she must remember
that for four years she made money OF
OF me and that / was only making up
for lost time. And sleep. why I never
would wake up IL they didn't come IT,
and snake me and I haven't pain
about me now.
The above remarkable statement was
made by ". \. Splitter. z we'll known
employee OF the Tennessee Coal * Iron
Company. who lives at 80 South Sixty.
eighth street Birmingham. lie X we'll
known and highly respected m the
birmingham district and * an honest,
hard working man
Tanlac is sold by leading druggists
IN all principal towns Of the South
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