The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-06-13
WORLDS RECORD
BROKEN BY TANLAC
IN SALES 4 YEARS
BOTTLES SOLD DURING THAT
TIME WOULD REACH FROM
NEW YORK TO DENVER.
ABOUT 100000 BOTTLES
Demand Is Increasing and During the
First Ten Weeks of This Year Over
One Million Bottles Were Sold and
Distributed.

Four years ago very few people had
ever heard of Tanlac-Today it un
questionably 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 only -four
years time this now famous remedy
has leaped from obscurity to the very
pinnacle of success. It's fame in fact
has long since spread, beyond the
limits of the continent, and numer
Gus inquiries regarding it are now
being received from many foreign
countries.
Very few people, howeevr, fully
realize what really wonderful rec.
ord Tanlac has made. Indeed, if il
were not for the unquestionable facts
and figures given out by the largest
and best known drug firms of the
country the story of it's 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 distri-
buted in the United States and Can
ada, the exact figure being 1906, 1876
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 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 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
Tanlac from the Great Lakes to the
Gulf of Mexico Piled end on end
they would tower 1875 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 its sale instead of
being measured by the gross as other
preparations have been is now reck-
oned by the car load, 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.
The we'll known drug firm of Hes
sig Ellis Drug Company of Memphis,
Tenn, has sold over forty car loads
since the introduction of Tanlac in
tbot ctafo four yoarc
Within the past ninety days, ten car
loads of Tanlac have gone to supply
the demand of British Columbia,
Saskatchewan, 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 10000 bottles
at retail, which surpasses the remark
able record of the Jacobs Pharmacy
Company of Atlanta, who have sold
approximately $4,000 bottles at re-
tail
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 of both the United States
and Canada and absolute merit and
merit alone is responsible for its
phenomenal and unprecedented sue
cess.
Tanlac is now sold in Columbia by
the Smiser Drug Co. and by leading
druggists everywhere.-tAdvt)
AAraIh ChAan Column Ada Paw.