McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-01-05
THIS MAN SAYS HE
FLlRTED With GRAVE
Fell Off Until He Only Weighed
Seventy Pounds. Takes TanIac
and Gains Twenty-Five Pounds.

'l'll 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 | left
here tonight" said W. A. Splitter, at
Patton.Pope's Drug Store, Birmiug-
ham, recently. Mr.. Splitter is we'll
known painter, employed by the Ten
nessee Coal, Iron and Railway Com
pany, and resides at 910 South Sixty
eighth street, Birmingham.
Before began taking it only
weighed 1876 pounds. Today got on
the scales and tipped them at l56-a
gain of 81 pounds and more than l
ever weighed in my life. That's ex-
actly what four bottles of Tanlac did
for me. Just look at this belt! | had
to let it out four inches, and it is still
tight on me.
About seven years ago | COM
menced having stomach trouble, and
it kept getting worse until l began
having attacks Of acute Indigestion.
When these attacks came on me
would just swell up like mule with
the collie, and got as limp as a rag.
My breath would get short, and my
pulse 80 weak, | 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 on me, and | don't believe was
ont of pain night or day for four long
years, and | actually got so weak |
could hardly stand on my feet-much
less work. was fading away fast,
and got down to where only weighed
70 younds. | was a walking skeleton,
and tell you | was flirting with my
grave, and guess | would have been
in it il it hadn't been for Tanlac. For
four years | 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 | ever was in nv
life, and can do as big a days work
as any man.
Eyes, sir, if ever a mortal man has
been through the rub am the man.
| have paid out, guess, not less than
$500 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 | was
lucky not to have had an undertaker's
bill to wind it all up.
Il have been a painter all my life,
and have had painters collie several
times, SO guess that had a lot to do
with my condition. Anyway, there
seemed to be nothing that would
straighten me out. Every time
heard Of new medicine | would get
| it. | read Of Tanlac one day. and
that's one time 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 ! get ashamed Of myself.
My landlady said the other day she
would have to raise my board. told
her, though, she must remember that
for four years she made money off of
me, and that was only making up
for lost time. Why, seven or eight
biscuits at meal don't satisfy me
now, but just quit at that for fear
will overdo matters. but everything
tastes so good to me now! And sleep
why, I never would wake up if they
didn't come in and shake me.
haven't pain about me now"
| Tanlac is sold in Selmer exclusively
by Browder Bros; in Adamsville by
Abernathy's Pharmacy; in Beth {
Springs by 7. S. Davis; in Ramer by
| A. B. Hamm & Co.; in Chewalla by
G. W. Parsons; W. M. Barnes, NJ. D
Finger. Tenn; W. T. Gooch, Niche
Tenn; ]. R, Gooch & Co., Gravelhill
Tenn. ad,