The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1919-06-19
WORLDS RECORD IS
BROKEN BY TANLAC
Bottles sold in Four Years Would
Reach From New York t0 Den.
yer, Colorado

Four years ago very few people had
ever heard of Tanlac. Today it un-
questionabIv has the largest sale of
any medicine in the world. and is as
well known in Canada AS in this coun-
try. In the brief period Of four years
time this now famous remedy has
leaped from obscurity to the very pin.
nacle of success. It's fame, in fact,
has long since spread beyond the lin
It's of the continent, and numerous in
quiries regarding it are now being re-
ceived from many foreign countries.
Very few people, however, fully real
ize what a wonderful record 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 distrib
uted in the United States and Canada.
the exact figure being 1906. 1856 in
three months.
At this rate, therefore, the sales for
the present year will amount to more
than five million bottles. This will
means that l,700O bottles of Tanlac
will be sold during every day of the
year, or 2l00 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 million bot.
ties mean by imagining them laid out
in a single file end to end. Thus laid
they would make track of Tanlac
from New York through Chicago, and
on to Denver. Colorado; or they would
form double track of Tanac 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
49, 1888 times higher than the W oolworth
Building in New York, the tallest
building in the world.
The demand for Tanlac has become
so great that its sale instead of being
measured by the gross as other prepar.
atiOns have been, is now reckoned by
the car load. and even by the train
load In proof of this it is a note
worthy fact that the leading drug job
bers everywhere now buy Talnac al
most exclusively in car load lots. To
| supply the Pacific coast trade alone re-
quires from forty to fifty car loads per
year Jobbers of the middle west are
selling from seventy to eighty cars per
! year.
The well known drug firm of Hessig.
Ellis Drug Company, of Memphis,
Tenn, has sold over forty car loads
since the introduction of Tanlac in that
state four years ago.
Within the past ninety days ten car
loads of Tanlac have gone to supply
the demand of British Columbia, Sas-
katchewan, Alberta and Manitoba,
! Canada.
The Owl Drug Company, of San
Francisco, the largest retail druggists
on the Pacific coast, state that they
have sold more than lS0 600 bottles at
retail, which surpasses the remarkable
record of the Jacobs Pharmacy Com
pary, of Atlanta. who have sold APP
proximately 50, 900 bottles at retail
Tanlac is composed of the most ben
eficial roots and herbs known to SCI
ence. The formula complies with all
national and state pure food and health
laws of both the United States and
Canada and absolute merit and merit
alone is responsible for its phenomenal
and unprecedented success.
Tanlac is sold in Hood River by the
kresse Drug Co. Adv.