The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-12-15
HAD TO LET OUT
BELT FOUR INCHES
sPITzER SAYS HE FLIRTED WITH
GRAVE YARD FOUR YEARS.
TAKE TANLAc AND GAINS Fl
POUNDS.

Before began taking Tanlac I only
weighed 1856 pounds. Today got on
the scales and l tipped the beam at
156-a gain of 81 pounds-and more
than ever weighed In my life. That's
just exactly what four bottles of Tam
lac did for me. Why, just look at this
belt, had to let it out four inches
ard it's still tight on me.
About seven years ago l commenc-
ed having stomach trouble and at
tacks Of acute indigestion. When these
spells would come on me, / would just
swell up like a mule with the colic
and sometimes / would get as limp
as rag. My breath would get short
and my pulse so weak I was afraid
my heart would stop beating. The
stomach pump would have to be
used every time and I 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 1 actually got so weak
could hardly stand on my feet-much
less work. / had no appetite and
couldn't digest anything. To tell you
the truth, l was slowly starving to
death and l got down to where / only
weighed 20 pounds. Now think of that,
grown man only weighing 20 pounds
but it's a fact and hundreds of peo-
pie who know me will tell you the
same thing.
Yes, sir, / was almost a walking
skeleton and to tell you the truth,
was flirting with the grave, and I
guess l would have been there right
now if it hadn't been for Tanlac. Just
to show you how sick was I 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 L am
wa king around and feel as well as I
ever felt In my life. I have regular
job now with The Tennessee Coal and
Iron Company, and / can do as good
a days work as anybody. I have paid
out 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
you is the truth and if any man has
ever been through the rub, 1 am that
man.
Il have been painter all of my life
and had painters collie several times
so guess that had q little to do with
fmy troubles. Anyway. there seemed to
be nothing that would straighten me
out. Every time read about a new
medicine, would get it. read about
Tanlac one day and that's one time I
hit it right. That's what saved my life
and it is the only thing that ever help
ed me a particle. eat so much now
I 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 made money
off of me and that I was only making
up for lost time. And sleep, why, I
never would wake up If they didn't
come in and shake me and I haven't
a 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 go
South Sixty eighth street, Birming-
| ham. He is we'll known and highly
respected in the Birmingham district
| and is an honest, hard working man.
Genuine Tanlac is>sold only and ex-
clusively in Pensacola by the Crystal
Pharmacy.-Adv.