The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-17
Father of Sixteen
Says Tanlac
Saved Him
From the Grave
Thought End Near and Told Wife to
Put Children in Odd Fellows
Home When He Died

Put Children IN Ud0 reliows
Home When He Died
What is probably the most rs
markable Endorsement ever given
proprietary medicine was the state
ment made recently by H. J. VIII
liams, a coal miner at the Tennessee
| Coal and Iron Co., mine No 8, near
Fairfield. Ala, in the Birmingham
district.
The story of his wonderful restor-
alton to health was told in his own
words, and is profoundly interesting.
His statement follows:
II am "a years of age, and am the
father of sixteen children, eight liv-
ing and eight dead. came to Birm-
ingham from East Tennessee, and
have followed mining for good
many years.
about two years ago took sick.
The doctors at first thought | had
tapeworm, then hookworm, and i'm
ally decided it was pelegra. took
treatment from well-known Ala
bama Pellagra Cure but got no
benefit. The doctors finally told me
they couldn't do me any good, and
quit going to see them.
| n suffered from a sort of numb
feeling all the time in my back, and
was dizzy-headed.. | couldn't stoop
over, or stand on my feet for any
length Of time, and couldn't hardly
eat anything and nothing tasted
good. In fact, | was slowly starving
to death.
Il lost all of my strength and fell
off As pounds in weight. used te
weigh, when | was well, 1873 pounds
and got down to where ! only
weighed 80 pounds, and was almost
walking skeleton.
81 finally decided that there was
no more hope for me in this life, ant
l gave my ring to my wife and tolt
her to put the children in the Ode
Fellows Home when Y died.
This is just the shape ! was il
when, one day. my little daughta
said Papa, why don't you try tina
new medicine everybody is talkin'
abouto 1t has helped so many PEG
pie, it might help you Of course
had no faith in anything, but just I
please the family, | made one NOR
trial and got this Tanlac. May tn
good Lord bless the day | got thi
; medicine, for it was my salvation
> 81 got relief from the first bottle
- and l began to eat and pick up RICH
> from the start. l am now on m
fifth bottle, and have actually game
back 25 pounds, and now weigh IL
1t Just looked like the more too
the better I got, and | keep on picl
- ing up every day.
II went over to the mines yeste
- day and made arrangements to G
- back to work I am strong enough
= walk around wherever want to G
y something | have not been able
- do for over a year, and that is
a fact. Tanlac mighty nigh rais'
me from the dead, that's what
done for me. If you don't belle
y. what l have told you, just ask al
:. of the men around mine No s, al
they will all tell you the fix | W
a. in, and how much better off | a
now.
Thank God I will soon be able
nc earn living for my family, and
A will owe it all to this medicine, Tia
lac. l have just written to a daug
ter of mine in LaFollette, Tenn, W
90 needs a medicine like this, and
60 want her to take it and get we'll.
n Il don't believe now l ever h
~ Pelegra, because | never did ha
IL
Of any breaking out of any kind.
,r- don't believe / had hookworm, ell
v er, but whatever it was, this Tan
- has certainly fixed me- | don't rec
~ on there ever was medicine
:. earth like Tanlac. | will always bl
10 the day l bought this medicine
- Tanlac is sold exclusively in La
ION land by Henley & Henley; in F
- Meade by Warns Pharmacy; in La
no Winter Haven by the Anderson Dr
he ~