The Birmingham age-herald. [volume], October 17, 1915, Page NINE, Image 9

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“FAT MAN'S CLUB”
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Prospects Fine for Big
Membership—Many Avail
able Candidates
So many people in Birmingham and
elsewhere have been reporting an ex
traordinary increase in weight during
the past few weeks as the result of tak-i
Ing Tanlac, that one of the clerks at
Jacobs’ Drug Store jokingly suggested,
yesterday that a fat man's club be organ
ized here.
Many thousands declare their weight
has increased wonderfully by the use of
Tanlac. but only a small percentage of
these statements are published.
Below’ are a few recent expressions on
the subject:
Mrs. Charles Peden, 560 Mill street,
Huntsville: "I have finished my third
bottle of Tanlac and have gained 27
pounds. 1 suffered misery for years, and
was twice examined and told I had ap
pendicitis, and that an operation was my
only hope. I made all plans for the
operation, but my sister pleaded with me
not to let them cut on me until I tried
a good tonic. I took her advice. I bought
a bottle of Tanlac and It seemed to take
hold from the very start. The pains
have disappeared. My improvement has
been marvelous and my recovery is the
talk of the neighborhood."
B. L. Allen, barber at Sheffield: "My
wife gained 23 pounds after taking three
Ibottles of Tanlac. She suffered three
years with stomach, liver and kidney
itrooble, and tried all kinds of medicines,
but nothing seemed to do her any good
until she got hold of Tanlac. She now
looks like a different person and Is the
happiest woman In Sheffield."
O. H. Mahaffy, chief engineer of the
Life and Casualty building, Nashville,
last Saturday said: *‘I have taken eight
bottles of Tanlac and have actually
gained 40 pounds and feel better and
stronger than I have felt in 26 years. I
•uffcred two years from the worst kind
of stomach trouble, and fell off from
£10 pounds to 162. I am now back to
202. This Tanlao seemed to take hold
right from the start. It Is a most re
markable medicine.”
F. C. McGavock, owner of a large dairy
farm near Columbia, Tenn., said: “I
have taken five bottles of Tanlac and
have gained 30 pounds. 1 wras all run
dow’n and unfit for work, couldn’t eat
or sleep and was losing weight and
strength all the time. I took Tanlac
and it helped me from the very start.
It has simply made a new man out of
me.’’
Miss LeReu Davis, 210 Glass street,
Chattanooga, said: "Before I began
taking Tanlac I weighed 76 pounds. I
now weigh over 100 pounds and am gain
ing every day. I was always delicate
and for years suffered from stomach
trouble and rheumatism. I couldn’t eat
or sleep. This is the very condition I
was in, but Just look at me now! One
would hardly know me to be the same
person.”
Capt. A. H. Miller, conductor on Trains
Nos. 73 and 74 between Knoxville and
Harriman, said: "I have taken seven
bottles of Tanlac. I weighed 190 pounds
before I became afflicted with catarrh
and stomach trouble, and was strong and
healthy. I got down to where I weighed
only 151 pounds. Since taking Tanlac I
am In better health than I have been in
years, and now weigh 174, or a gain of
22 p<Amds. It gives me pleasure to tell
the people about my recovery."
Mrs. J. P. Rice, 3(J7 Russell street,
Nashville, said: “I have gained 15
pounds and feel like a different per
son. I walked downtown today for
the first time in four years. I have
teen sick and suffered so long I feel
like everybody ought to know this.”
J. Pat Brock, traveling salesman
for J. H. Orr & Co., Nashville, said:
“I have taken three bottles of Tan
lac and have gained 18 pounds. I feel
better and stronger in every way. I
suffered a long time with dyspepsia
and stomach trouble, but this Tanlac
proved to be just what I needed."
J. W. Longhurst, police sergeant
at Nashville, said: "I have gained
3 6 pounds and have only been taking
Tanlao a few weeks. I wasn't sick, but
merely out of shape and bilious and
needed something to tone me up. I don’t
believe there Is another medicine that
would have increased my weight 15
pounds in so short a time.”
Mrs. Elliott Baker, Lexington,
Ky., said: “I gained 20 pounds after
taking Tanlac one month and after
being under a doctor’s care eight years
for stomach trouble and indigestion.
Tanlac is the only thing that ever
helped me.”
Mrs. C. E. Swan sop, 1411 Seventeenth
ptreet, North, Birmingham, said: “I am
on my second bottle of Tanlac and
have gained 12 pounds. This improve
ment came after I suffered three years
with indigestion and stomach trouble.
Tanlac seemed to take hold right from
the start and braced me right up. It
Is a grand medicine.”
J. K. Nelson, well known postal clerk
at Nashville, said: “Honestly, people
Won’t hardly know me since I have been
taking Tanlac and hundreds have been
Asking me what I have been doing for
knyself. I have Just finished my sec
ond bottle and have gained 15 pounds,
t feel better and stronger in every
way. I was all run down before I be
fcan taking Tanlac, but feel fine now.”
Mrs. H. B. Barrett of Republic, Ala.,
paid: “I have actually gained nine
pounds after taking just one bottle of
Tanlac. My condition was such that
tor four years I lived almost entirely
off of milk and bread. I guess I spent
Over |1000 trying to get well of chronic
Wyspepsia, but nothing prescribed for
frie brought relief until I found Tan
lac. I can now eat anything. I feel it
lias added years to my life.”
Tanlac is sold In Birmingham ex
clusively by Jacobs’ Drug Store and
Patton-Pope Drug Co. It is also sold
In Ensley by the D. W. Morris Drug
Co., and in Bessemer by the Pegram
fcatton Drug Co.—Adv.
Clanton, October 16.—(Special.)—At a
faceting of the members of the Baptist
Church of Clanton a unanimous call wai
extended to the Rev. H. T. Crumpton
*f Notasulga to accept and take charge
of the church at this place.
Revival services are being held every
(light at the Clanton Methodist church,
the services are to continue during the
keek.
' %
The following delegates have been ap
pointed from Clanton to attend the an
nual convention of equal suffrage, which
is to be held in Washington: Mrs. E. M.
tMnckard, Mrs. J. O. Middleton, Mrs. N.
B. Johnson and Miss Emmette Mathews.
C. B. Cox has been selected as a mem
ber of the state board of equalization foi
Chilton county.
Mrs. Mattie White, age 60 years, died
,nd Interment was made In Antldch cem
etery. The Rev. John Lemeriek preached
the funeral sermon. There were present
a large number of friends and relatives
Mrs. White had" resided In Clanton foi
the past 40 years. The deceased leaves th<
following children: S. J. White, I,. D
White, E. M. White, C. W. White, Mrs
knna Chambers, Mrs. Edna Kltnner, Mrs
Itac Broad head and Mrs. Uertle Kemp.
STEADY ADVANCE '
IN m GOODS
Dyestuffs’ Scarcity an Im
portant Factor in Trading
for Future Delivery
York, October 17.—-Cotton goods
are advancing steadily In the finished
goods division, and strength continues in
all lines of gray goods. Discounts on
cotton duck were shortened during the
week to a basis of 30 and 5 off the list
for wide duck and 20 and 5 off on fail
duck. Bleached muslins were advanced
Me a yard to a basis of 814c for Fruit of
the Loom 4x4 goods. f
Wide sheetings were further advanced
-14c. Ginghams, tickings, dress ginghams
and other semi-staples are held at value
pending a revision upward. Fine and
fancy cottons are being advanced at mill
centers, and In the markets where finished
Goods are traded in. Dyestuffs scarcity
is becoming a more important factor in
finding as buyers are now willing to
pay premiums for goods in which colors
are guaranteed fast. An advance in
prints is looked for daily and per^^hs
arc up 14c a yard. The demand for mer
chandise has been broad and sales could
easily be increased If mills were able to
forecast cotton prices for next year safe
ly. Many mills have begun to run c<rer
time, while colored goods mills continue
to announce curtailment due to dve short
age. Prices quoted: Print cloths, 28
inch, 64x04*3, 3B*c; 64xfl0’s. 314c; S8U-inch,
6ix64's, 4%c; brown sheetings, southern
standards. denims, 9-cunce, 14c;
tickings, at value, 1114c; staple ginghams,
at value, «Hc; prints, 614c; dress ging
hams, at value, 814c.
HIS BATTALIONWAS
WIPfiD OUT IN FIGHT
FOR HILL NUMBER 60
(Continued from Pare Five)
—and about the gas the Germans use.
It is the most terrible invention ever
thought of. May God forgive the man
who thought It—the British soldier
cannotl”
“Extract from my sister's letter:
"Winlwlck, Lanchashtre, Oct. 1, 1916.
"This week we are all filled with
Jubilation by the good news of the
glorious vlotory In Flanders and the
taking prisoners of over 20,000 Ger
mans.
“Sir John French has good cause to
be proud of bis voluntary new army.
And now we are wondering what Bul
garia is going to do. Greece is mob
ilizing and, I suppose, is with the al
lies. should Bulgaria range on the side
of Kais‘r Bill.
"Kl’-g George is visiting the wound
ed In the hospitals up north. He's been
to Leeds and Sheffield—I wonder if
this hospital will be honored. He is
so kind and sympathetic and talks to
the men as if he thought they all were
heroes—and so they are! The sad side
of ‘victories' Is the fact that the hos
pitals all over England are receiving
large convoys dally all this week—190
here on Monday and 260 on Wednes
day. There are now 1060 in this hos
pital alone. We have 10 Canadian
nurses hers.
"Sugar Is now 6d a pound (2Hd be
fore the war). We shall have to Im
agine It's a very lengthy Lent and give
It up In our tea till the war Is over.
What an awful prospect. Tea minus ‘die
sucre' Is not the 'cheering cup‘ to me!
“Next morning. Another convoy of
200 at 8 a. m.—100 stretcher cases.”—
J. I* E.
DOTHAN
Falling Tree Lands as Opossum Hint
era—One Killed) Two Injured—Three
Ante Smaahups In One Day
Dothan, October 16. — (Special.)
Hughey Hinson, 18, was killed and
Grady Hinson and two other compan
ions severely Injured last night when
a party of opossum hunters cut down
a tree In which an opossum had been
treed, the tree falling upon another
tree and bounding back upon the party.
The accident occurred about nine
miles west of Dothan. All the young
men are of well known families of
that community.
Cotton seed sold here Friday freely
at |44 per ton, the highest price ever
paid for seed in this market. Farmers
who have been holding their seed for
a better price are disposed to sell at
this quotation and many are hauling
their seed to this market.
Three accidents In which two people
were Injured and an automobile and
a buggy damaged was the record for
smashups here Friday.
Charles Berry, traveling salesman for
a wholesale grocery house, ran his
car into a ditch three miles north of
Dothan while going at a rapid rate. The
car turned over and fell upon him.
His collar bone was broken and his
shoulder fractured. People who saw
the accident went to the rescue and
prized the car off Mr. Berry.
Mrs. Shelley Bell was run over by an
•automobile driven by a young man
named Clemmens. She was painfully
Injured about the knee and ankle and
suffered other bruises. Clemmens' home
is in Hartford. The accident occurred
one mile west of Dothan on the Hart
ford road.
A traveling salesman named Wtlker
son ran his oar Into a farmer's buggy,
bsdly damaging the buggy. No one
was hurt. Wilkerson’s home Is said to
be in Birmingham.
Charles Fairchild & Co.’a Letter
New York, October 16.—(Special.)—Liv
erpool's weakness today exerted a de
pressing Influence at our opening. Out
side Interest was lacking, the weather,
while not of the best In many sections
of the belt, showing absence of any in
dications of prospective killing frosts.
Prices advanced and sagged moderately
on very small sized orders. In the last
half hour of business, however, covering
on part of nervous local shorts carried
prices up to the best prices of the morn
ing. It became apparent that there was
very little cotton for sale and that, with
recent big and little speculative longs,
largely eliminated, killing frosts
might prove to be more of a factor in the
situation than many interests thought
possible.
The market from our viewpoint Is like
ly to be an up and down affair tempo
rarily, a purchase on all declines for
scalping operations, an Investment prop
osition for large profits eventually.
Speculative interest in oil is lacking at
the moment, but in our Judgment this
Is a preliminary to renewed activity, and 1
the highest prices ever recorded In the
near future. Properly margined oil fu
tures in our opinion are likely to prove
a gift-edged investment proposition of
great value. _
Cotton Seed Oil
New York, October 16.—Cotton seed oil
showed a alight advance early on bull
support In March, but the list later turned
easy under scattered selling for long ac
count. Final prices were 3 to 9 points
net lower. Sales, 11,400 barrels.
The market closed easy. Spot, 7.50® i
7.86c; October. 7.Co®7.85c; November, 7.76®
7.76c; December, 7.87®7.8oc; January, 7.87©
7.90c; February, 7.96@7.97c; March, 8.03®
8.04c; April, 8.12®S.15c; May, 8.17©8.19c.
5SSSS5S^SS5555SSSSSSSS»| t<n RT^ED»TM^<o»irAT*osTKBr!r^SS5iiiBiiSS55iiiiSSiiM—— ———>
Free Coal With Every Stove or Range
0neTon j This Week at One-Half
Osters’ Annual Stove Sale
Coal I
FREE - ■ .— ===== FREE
with every fir This, without doubt, will be the f]T The Montevallo Mining Com- with every j
■j Range 'll greatest stove sale ever held in 'll pany are distributing this coal heater
L™™—Birmingham, for not only will you without cost to us, to introduce
find the stove values most remarkable and matchless, Montevallo coal into 500 additional homes as the
but the free coal given is the best in this district for best coal for any of the ranges or heaters on sale at ■
home use. . ; •»« Osters this week.
“Pearl
Superb”
Steel
Range
Like cut,
full nick
eled, with
the rmometer,
etc.
.75
Cash or $1.0C
week
We bought the entire factory lot of these
Ranges and at a price below actual price of
production, which accounts for the remark
ably low price this Range is being sold for
during this sale. It compares in value to
ranges selling at $50.00 and up. Is mas
sive and richly nickeled, has thermometer ^
in oven and other distinctive features. An
ideal Range for hard and steady use.
AND ONE TON “MONTBVALLO” COAL FREE
& A. Er'Special
shown. Special
ish or $1.00 week
dependably con
cted Steel Range, six
t size; has duplex
.e. warming closet, etc.
asbestos lined and in
ry way a Range which
ipares with others sell
at $27.60 and more.
AND ONE TON “MONTEVALLO" COAL FREE
The World’s Best
H Heater
J The “Superb”
Hot Blast
Heater
I Burns any kind of fuel and
very little of It M I ■ I
I Holds fire t] f|f
twenty-four hours
and longer.
11 Is guaranteed to give
as much heat with as
little fuel as any other
heater.
I Is of most substantial
construction and will
outlast most any other
heater.
II Richly nickeled, very
attractive in design,
easily operated, etc.
Sold on 30 days
Free Trial
COST NO MORE THAN OTHERS:
Priced $f A.75 8 Styles
This Six Hole Size “Triumph” ^ *rom ^ Sizes
““ "1 1 ■— AND ONE-HALF TON "MONTEA*ALLO" COAL FREE
Steel Range, tjie nr -
Equal of Any ^ Garland
$40 Range, Only Combination Coal
Tliis Range embodies all the desirable features you 8nd (fflS KflU^C
find In ranges selling at $40.00 and up. Body is heavy > 5 ,
grade blue polished steel, asbestos lined. Has castings Knables you to use
of finest grade and quality and nickeling is very profuse either gas or coal or
and of most durable make. Has duplex grate for coal both at the same time,
or wood, large flues assuring greatest efficiency tn bak- nnd 11 °cc"P,e8 no more I
. ,, , space than any ordinary
ing and cooking, has nickel towel rod, tea shelf warming range. Specially priced ’
closet and many other superior features, making this one at 1
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AND ONE TON “MONTEVALLO" COAL FREE
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I Montevallo Coal Is Sold Exclusively By [jgrgig^g]
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I ’ Simpson Coal and First Avenue Coal Woods-Cain Coal
I Grain Company and Lumber Co. Company
I I Bessemer, Ala. Woodlawn Brighton, Ala.
Sale Last Sale Last
This This
Week Only Week Only v ! IB
_I
rhink American Corres
spondents Have Been
Unduly Favored
London, October 2.—(Special.)—Much
dssatlsfactlon Is being caused In English
lewspaper circles by the fact that the
:orrespondents of the press of almost
ivery other coutnry are being given in
erviews with the highest In the land, are
>eing granted special facilities at the
'ront and with the fleet, and are given the
nost accurate and up-to-lhe-minutes In
ormation while the representatives of the
mine press are being kept In the daik
ind compelled large’y to obtain their in
ormatlon by a perusal of the foreign
ess.
This dissatisfaction, simmering for some
nonths, has been brought to a violent
>oll by the publication here of extract*
'rom the articles by Frederick Palmer,
lescriblng his visit to the British fleet
ind, at the same time, the appearance of
sxtracts from the French correspond
snts’ accounts of tlicir participation in
he same affair. It Is recal'od that Lloyd
jeorge granted interviews to French cor
respondents, Winston Churchill has
u.l goods marked i\ plain FIGURES I
^""MIII"l,""l"""M,",",IIMIMII"T!r(>rd<,H»iK Ooodi Plrawe Mention THE
talked freely to Dutch and Italian news
papermen, Balfour addressed chatty let
ters for publication to American corre
spondents, Haldane unbosomed himself to
a Chicago scribe. Kitchener chatted with
the representative of a Philadelphia
weekly, Asquith took lunch with a New
York penman, while half a score of
American correspondents took weekly tea
with the members of the British govern
ment.
On the other hand, the London news
paper men get nothing worth while and
the publication of half of what they do
learn by accident Is forbidden by the cen
Bor. However, the fault seems to lie
mainly with the editors of the London pa
pers and their scribes. The latter are a
meek lot, who approach their Intended
victims In a apologetic eort of way. Esrf
cially Is this true when they get into
touch with high officials. They are easily
rebuffed, In fact seem to expect a re
buff, and are turned from their legiti
mate prey with the greatest of ease bv
a cheeky office boy. The editors never
bark their men up, seeming to hold the
opinion that It la none of their businer..
A resolute, combined stand by the edi
tors of the London newspapers wou'd
advance the status of English newspaper
men a couple of hundred per cent In a
very short space of time.
Federal Reserve Bank Statement
Washington, October 16.—Investments of
federal reserve banks In United States
bonds Increased almost $1.000,000 during the
past week, according to a statement of
the banks' condition October IS, Issued
today by the federal reserve board. It
■hows:
Resources: Gold coin and certificates in
vault, $226,936,000; gold settlement fund,
$38,620,000; gold redemption fund with
United States treasurer, $1,212,000; total
gold reserve, $286,788,000. Legal tender
notes, silver, etc., $19,748,000; total reserve,
$306,636,000. Bills discounted and bought:
Maturities within 10 days. $8,694,000; ma
turities within 30 days, $12,939,000; maturi
ties within 60 days, $14,703,000; maturities
within 90 days, $8,116,000; maturities over
90 days, $1,507,000; total, $43,959,000. In
vestments; United States bonds, $10,380,000;
municipal warrants, $26,583,000; federal re
serve notes, net, $15,238,000; due from fed
eral reserve banks, net, $10,160,000; all
other resources, $3,018,000; total resources,
$415,872,000.
Liabilities: Capital paid in. $54,775,000;
government deposits, $15,000,000; reserve
deposits, net, $328,760,000; federal reserve
notes, net, $14,791,000; all other nubilities,
$2,540,000; total liabilities, $415,872,000; gold
reserve against net liabilities, 82.3 per
cent; cash reserve against net liabilities,
88 per cent. Cash reserve against liabili
ties after setting aside 40 per cent gold
reserve against net amount of federal
reserve notes in circulation, frO.l per cent.
Rev. Wright to Speak Today
The Rev. A. K. Wright, pastor of the
First Baptist church of Ensley, will be
the speaker at the men’s meeting ut the
Young Men's Christian association this
afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. Ills subject
will be, “Making a Life and Making a
Living.’’ The meeting will be free to all
men, and a large crowd is expected. The
first meeting of the fall campaign of the
Young Men's Christian association was
held four weeks ago. Every Sunday the
attendance has been good and the in
terest is growing. In the near futurt
the meetings will be moved to one of the
downtown theatres^
Barbados, British West Indies, Sep
tember 2B.—(Correspondence of the
Associated Press.) —While economic
conditions In some of the Islands of
the British West Indies have been con
siderably affected by the war In Eu
rope, It appears, after a year’s dura
tion of the conflict, that Bains In some
lines of business have quite offset
losses In others. The war has In fact
caused less depression and less real
suffering among the people than along
drouth has caused In other years,
The Islands have contributed freely
In both money and men to help Great
Britain In the war and as a result of
this public expenditure there will be
Increased taxation; but the Improve
ment in prices of sugar, cocoa and
limes, which It Is confidently expect
ed will continue for some years after
the war, will prevent the additional
burden being felt. The large amounts
annually spent by the well-to-ao
classes of the West Indies In traveling
to England and Europe have been saved
this year so the private susoriptlons
to war funds are more than recouped
from this source alone, without any
exercise of local economy.
Some few enterprises have been
| checked. The electrification of the
Burbadus tramway, which was pur
chaepfl a couple of yeafs ago by un
American Hyndlcate, for Instance, lias
been postponed. On the other hand.
Improvements are being made on sugar
plantations and maohiuery orders are
being placed In the United
The trade with South America htfl
declined and the large colony of lira
slllans and Peruvians In Barbados has
dwindled. Hut the business of coaling
steamers running between North and
South America has never been better.
Trade b?tween England and the West
Indies has fallen off ns the royal mall
service has been reduced from fort
nightly salllugs to monthly. The
quickest route Is now via New York.
...■>» -
Produce Market
New York, October 16.—Butter steady;
receipts, 7406; creamery, extras, 92-score,
28ft®28Vic; creamery higher, scoring 29®
29*/cc; firsts, 26Gi'28c. Eggs firmer; receipts,
155; fresh gathered extras, S4(&35c; extra
firsts, 31(bN33e; firsts, 27®30c; seconds. 22Vfc
26c. Cheese firm; receipts. 628; state whole
milk, fresh flats, white and colored
specials, 15^15l4c; special average lancy,
14fcc. Live poultry steady; western chick*
ens, 15c; fowls. 13^®l4>fco; turkeys, 18c|
dressed dull and weak; western fresi
chickens, barrel. 15®23c; fresh fowls, icet^
ltkgi8V|c; turkeys, 15®22VgC.
Chicago. October 16.—Butter unchanged
Eggs unchanged; receipts. 2796 cases. Wor
tatoes lower; receipts, 90 cars; Michigan
and Wisconsin whites, 43tf,uOc; Minnesota
whites. 48<7f'62c; Minnesota Ohios. 48fro2e,
Poultry, alive, lower. Fowls, 12^fc&13ct
springs. 13V»c.
St. Louis, October 16.—Poultry; butter
unchanged. Eggs. 23c.
Kansas City:. October 16.—Butter, egg^
poultry, unchanged.
Elgin. 111.. October 16.—Butter; receipt#
300 tubs, at 27ftc. ^ S l’«l