The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1916-04-07
CAPT. HOBBS SAYS He
SUFFESED TWENTY YEARS
Prominent Nashville Rail
way Official Says New
Joy Has Come to Him.
TOOK FRIENDS ADVICE
Gained 20 Pounds on Two Bottles of
Tanlac and Thinks it is the
Finest Medicine.

A message that will probably in
terest more people than any of the
thousands of endorsements heretofore
given the famous medicine, Tanlac, is
the remarkable statement given to
the press by Capt. T. J. Hobbs, who
resides at 2110 Aclon Ave-, Nashville
Tenn. Capt. Hobbs has been a pas
senger conductor on the Louisville and
Nashville railroad for thirty-seven
years and is one Of the most popular
and widely known railroad men in the
South.
81 suffered with this trouble for ff-
teen years." said the genial captain
to a Tanac representative who had
heard Of the unusual case that was
the talk of the railroad yards, "and
during this time | spent on an aver
age of $500 year trying to get
cured. The doctors said | had en-
largement of the liver.
'Well. don't know whether it was
that OF something else hc continued,
but do know that for the last three
years have not had a single good
nights rest, and have not been able
to lie on my side at all. | got so |
could scarcely eat anything without
suffering for hours afterwards, and I
fell off tifty-tive pounds. I'm rather
a big fellow, as you see, and my nor
NAL weight is $50 pounds, but fcll
off to 195 and was getting so weak |
could hardly drag myself through the
train.
"Of night when l would lay down
my right side would pain me so badly
that it felt like an iron pin was being
driven through me. My digestion was
terrible, and took lot of medicine,
but nothing would do any good.
Every summer for Is years /
would go to Red Boiling Springs,
where the water and rest would patch
me up temporarily, but in a short time
would lapse into my old condition. I
was on the verge of giving up all hone
of ever seeing we'll day again
when my engineer said to me: Cap
tain, why don't you try Cooper's New
Medicine? All the railroad boys are
talking about it, and it is certainly
worth dollar to give it trial.
"Weli, | went into Demoville's Drug
Store and got a bottle, and | guess
you can see at glance what it has
done for me. L am now on my
seventh bottle. l sleep as sound as
dollar and can lie on my right side
without the least discomfort. l Just
sleep so soundly that l don't hear the
alarm clock half the time and | guess
I'd miss my train if Mrs. Hobbs didn't
yank me out of bed. l don't believe
/ would ever wake up.
Il enjoy my meals, too; I Just eat
everything in sight. A few nights ago
ate big bowl of cabbage, something
| very much like, but have been un-
able to eat for years. NV! but it
tasted good-and it didn't give me one
bit of trouble.
For long time my work dragged
on me. 1t worried me and I couldn't
take the interest in it | used to, but
nothing worries me now except nv
hunger, for it does seem like | can't
get enough to eat. | now 90 t.,
bed with a wire edge on nv spirits. 7
enjoy my work just like | used to.
All the boys have noticed the change.
After / had taken two bottles of
Tanlac | weighed and found | had
gained twenty pounds. That was a
few weeks ago; but l know | weigh
great deal more by now. If I had
known you were coming out to see
me | would have weighed again. III
say this: | think Tanlac is one of
the finest medicines l ever heard of in
my life, and | am glad to recon-
mend 1T to everybody. All my friends
know about it, you can bet on that,
and | know of about thirty of the
boys who are taking it."
Tanac, the master medicine, is sold
by Palmetto Drug Co., Union; Jones'
vile Drug Co., Jonesville; Lockhart
Mills Store, Lockhart; Buffalo Drug
Co., Buffalo; r. j. Fowler, Monarch.