The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-02-02
THIS MAN SAYS HE
FLIRTED WITH GRAVE
Fell OFF Until He Only Weighed
Seventy Pounds. Takes Tanlae
and Gains Twenty-One Pounds.

"Ill tell you the truth; if knew
this Tanlac was not going to be sold
any more | would buy every bottle
on that counter over there before
lefe here tonight" said W. A. Spit
7er, at Patton-Pope's Drug Store,
Birmingham, recently. Mr.. Splitter
is a w%ell-known painter employed by
the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail
wa company, and resides at 80
South Sixty-eighth street, Birming-
BAN.
Before | began taking it only
weighed 1875 pounds. Today got
on the scales and tipped them at
l56-a gain of 81 pounds-and more
than | ever weighed in my life.
That's exactly what four bottles Of
Tanlac did for me. Just look at this
belt! had to let it up four inches,
and it is still tight on me.
about seven years ago COM
menced having stomach trouble, and
it kept getting worse until ! began
having attacks of acute indigestion.
When these attacks came on me l
would just swell up like a mule with
the collie, and got as limp as a rag.
My breath would get short, and my
pulse so weak l was afraid my heart
would stop beating. The stomach
pump had to be used every time, as
this was the only thing that would
relieve me. Finally my kidneys went
back one me, and | don't believe !
was out of pain night or day for
four long years, and l actually got
so weak l could hardly stand on my
feet-much less work. l was fading
away fast, and got down to where l
only weighed 70 pounds. was al
most a walking skeleton, and l tell
you | was flirting with the grave, and
guess | would have been in it if it
hadn't been for Tanlac. For four
years l couldn't hit a lick of work.
guess | was as near dead as any
man YOU ever saw to be alive. But.
look at me now: / am strong and as
we'll now as l ever was in my life,
and can do as big a days work as
any a
"Yes, sir, if ever a mortal man has
been through the rub l am the man
| have paid out, l guess, not less than
$4,000 in the past six or sever 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 was
lucky not to have had an undertaker's
bill to wind it up.
have been a painter all my life,
nave "~a painters collie several
''mes. so guess that hao a 70. =. do
with my condition. ..S--
seemed to be nothing that would
s%traightcn me out. Every time ]
heard of a new medicine l would get
it. l read of Tanlac one day, and
that's one time l hit it right. That's
what saved me. Why, Tanlac just
raised me right out of my grave.
can now eat anything, and actually
/ eat SO much l get ashamed of N.Y.
self. My landlady said the other
day she would have to raise nv
| told her, though, she must
| emember that for four years she
made money off of me, and that
was only making up for lost time.
Why, seven o. eight biscuits at a
meal don't satisfy me now, but l Just
quit at that for fear l will overdo
matters, but everything tastes so
good to me now! And sleep! why |
never would wake up if they didn't
in and shake me. l haven't a
pain about me now"
Tanlac is sold in Grenada by the
End Glass and Corner Drug Stores,
also by S. S. Flowers, K~ilmichael,
Miss, G. Y. Gillespie, Duck Hill.
Miss. W. H. Kelly, Winona, Miss,
J. E. Chamberlain, Kincaid, Miss,
Caffey & Horton, Elliott, Miss.