Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-07-17
WORLD RECORD
Is Broken By Sales of
Celebrated Tanlac
Bottles Sold in Four Years Would
Make . Track Of Tan!ae Reaching
from New York to Denver, Col.
erade.

This is an age of big business, and
although the public has become ac-
custoned to big figures. the story Of
the marvellous growth and develop
nent Of Taniac forms one Of the
most interesting chapters Of Amer
ica's latter day commercial history.
Four years ago very few people had
ever heard Of Tanlac-today it IN
questiorably 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 1t
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 Tanlae 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 dis
tributed in the United States and
Canada. the exact figures being
1.306,1S6 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 Tanlac
will be sold during every day Of the
year. or 200 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 means by imagining them
, laid out in a single file end to end.
Thus laid they would make track of
Tanlac from New York through Chi
cago. and on to Denver. Colorado:
! or they would form double track of
Tanlac from the Great Lakes to the
i Gulf Of Mexico. Piled end on end
they would tower 135 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 become
so great that its sales instead Of be-
ing measured by the gross as other
preparations have been. is now
reckoned by the carload, and even by
the train load. In proof Of this it is
a noteworthy fact that the leading
drug jobbers everywhere now buy
Tanlac almost exclusively in car load
lots.
To supply the Pacific Coast trade
alone requires from forty to fifty car
loads per year. Jobbers Of the Middle
! West are selling from seventy to
eighty cars per year. One jobbing
concern alone, the Evans Smith Drug
Company Of Kansas City, Missouri, is
selling at the rate Of twenty car
loads Of $4,000 bottles each per year.
In letter dated April 18th, Julius NJ.
Price Of that company says: In fig
uring the amount Of Tanlac sold since
taking this agency we find that we
| 90 AAS" a." Va hAAS VII luS
| car, having sold more than a quarter
OF million packages in eight
months"
The well known drug firm of
Hessig- Ellis Drug Company, of
| Memphis. Tennessee, has sold over
| forty car loads since the introduce
ton Of Tanlac in that state four years
ago. Mr.. r. r. Ellis, President of
that company is authority for the
, statement that the demand for Tan
lac has been greater than any other
I'VE medicines combined.
Within the past ninety days, ten
carloads of Tanlac have gone to sup
ply the demand Of British Columbia,
Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba
Mr.. Charles Med. Hay, President
OF Lyman Brothers & Company, Linn
TIED. OF Toronto, one of the Oldest
and best known jobbing concerns in
Canada says: We have handled in
Ontario Province. Canada, five car
loads OF Tanlac since October, 1915,
while our total purchases have
amounted to IL cars within the past
two years"
The Owl Drug Company of San
Francisco. the largest retail drug
gists on the Pacific Coast, state that
they have sold more than 1sO, 900 bot
ties at retail, which surpasses the re-
markable record Of the Jacobs Phar-
macy Company at Atlanta. who have
sold approximately $4,000 bottles at
retail.
These enormous sales mean but one
thing. and that is-Merit.
Tanlac is widely advertised, it is
true, but such an unprecedented and
rapidly growing demand could not be
brought about by advertising alone.
One bottle is sold in a neighborhood
through advertising, 6ut ten more
bottles are sold in that community
after the first bottle produces re-
suits. People are always willing to
talk about their ailments, but they
are more than willing to tell others
OF the medicine that helps them.
Tanlac is composed of the most
beneficial roots and herbs known to
science. The. formula complies with
an national and state pure food and
health laws Of both the United States
ana Canada; and absolute merit and
merit alone is responsible for il,
phenomenal and unprecedented suc.
cess.
For sale by Bowditch-webster Co
ano leading druggists in every town.
L. w. Humphrey Severely
Injured on Wednesday
at S. d. Warren Mill