The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-06-12
WORLDS RECORD IS
BROKEN BY TANLAC
Bottles Sold in Four Years Would
Reach from New York
to Denver, Colo.

Four years ago very few people had
ever heard of Tanlac. Today it UNI
questionably has the largest sale Of
any medicine in the world, and is as
well known in Canada as in this
country. In the brief period of only
four years time this now famous
remedy has leaped from obscurity
to the very pinnacle of success, Its
fame, in fact, has long since spread
beyond the limits of the continent,
and numerous inquiries regarding it
are now being received from many
foreign countries.
Very few people, however, fully
realize what a really wonderful rec
ord Tanlac has made. Indeed, if it
were not for the unquestionable facts
and figures given out by the largest
and best known drug firms of the
country the story of its success would
be hard to believe.
Up to January first, the total sales
of Tanlac amounted to approximately
twelve million bottles. The demand,
however, is increasing, for during
the first ten weeks of this year over
one million bottles were sold and
distributed in the United States and
Canada, the exact figure being l.
306, 1856 in three months.
AT this rate therefore. the sales for
the present year will amount to more
than five million bottles. This will
mean that 1900 bottles Of TanIac
will be sold during every day of the
year, or 2,100 bottles for every hour
of the average working day.
These figures are too stupendous
for the average mind to grasp, but
one may visualize what twelve mil
lion bottles mean by imagining them
laid out in a single file end to end
Thus laid they would make a track
Of Tanlac from New York through
Chicago, and on to Denver, Colorado;
or they would form double track of
Tanlac from the Great Lakes to the
Gulf of Mexico. Piled end on end
they would tower 1876 times as high
as Pixies Peak, or rise 1888 times
higher than the Woolworth building
in New York, the tallest building in
the world.
The demand for Tanlac has be-
come so great that it's sale, instead
of being measured by the gross as
other preparations have been, is now
reckoned by the carload, and even by
the trainload. In proof Of this it is
a noteworthy fact that the leading
druggist jobbers everywhere now buy
Tanlac almost exclusively in carload
lots. To supply the Pacific coast
trade alone requires from forty to
fifty carloads per year. Jobbers Of
the middle west are selling from sew
enty to eighty cars per year.
The well known drug firm of He's
sig-Ellis Drug Company, of Memphis,
Tennessee, has sold over forty car
loads since the introduction of Tanlac
in that state four years ago.
Within the past ninety days, ten
carloads Of Tanlac have gone to sup
ply the demand Of British Columbia,
Saskatchewan, Alberta and Mantle
ba, Canada.
The Owl Drug Company, of San
Francisco, the largest retail drug
gists on the Pacific coast, state that
they have sold more than 10000
bottles at retail, which surpasses the
remarkable record of the Jacobs Phar-
macy Company, of Atlanta, who have
sold approximately $4,000 bottles at
retail.
Tanlac is composed Of t hemtsoA
Tanlac is composed of the most
beneficial roots and herbs known to
science. The formula complies with
all national and state pure food and
health laws both Of the United States
and Canada; and absolute merit and
merit alone is responsible for its phe-
nomenal and unprecedented success.
Tanlac is sold by leading druggists
everywhere. adv