Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-06-11
TANLAC SALES,
ESTABLISH new
WORLD'SRE'CORD[
Bottles Sold in Four Years
Would Reach From New
York to Denver.

This is an age Of big business, and
although the public has become ac-l
customed to big figures, the story of
the marvellous growth and develop
ment of Tanlac forms one Of the most
interesting chapters of Americas
latter day commercial history.
-Four years ago very few people
had ever heard of Tanlac. Today it,
any medicine in the world, and is as
we'll known in Canada as in this
country. Insthe brief period~of- only
four years time this now famous rem
edy has leaped from obscurity to the
very pinnacle of uccess Its fame, in
fact, has long s~inceNspread beyond the
limits ofSthe continent, and numerous
inquiries regarding 1T 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 forsthe 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
IlO"CVC ID 1LISlSo0Ali6 ~
first ten, weeks of this year over n
! million bottles were. sold and distrib-
uted in the United States and Can
! ada, the exact figure being 1.306,1S6
in three months. @f'h' e
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
x,oo~ ~ q mn -11tk1oe f1,, o,,o~r hoy,n
of the average working day.
These figures are too stupendous
for the average mind to grasp, but
one may visualize what twelve million
bottles means by imagining them laid
tout in a single file end to end. Thus
laid they would make a track of Tan
lac from New York through Chicago,
and on to Denver. Colorado; or they
would form a double track of Tanlac
from the Great Lakes to the Gulf OF
Mexico. Piled end on end they would
tower 1876 times ,las high as Pixies
Peak, or rise 1898 times higher
than the Woolworth Building in New
York. the tallest building in the
world.
The demand for Tanlac has become
sc great that it's sales instead of being
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
drug jobbers everywhere now buy
T'anlac almost exclusively in car load
lots.
To supply the Pacific Coast trade
alone requires from forty to fifty cal
loads per year-Jobbers of the Middle
West are selling from seventy tc
eighty r per year. One jobbine
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 year. In a let
ter dated April 10th, Julius NJ. Price
of h a company "In figuring
the amount of Tanlac sold since
taking this agency we find that we are
now working on the thirteenth ca.
having sold more than a quarter of {
million packages in eight months"
The well known drug firm o
Hessig-Ellfs Drug Company, Of Mem
phis, Tennessee, has sold over fort!
car loads since the introduction o
Tanlac in that state four years ago
MI. r. r. Ellis, president of that com
pany is authority for the statemen
that the demand for Tanlac has BEEF
greater than my other five medicine
combined.
Within the past ninety days, tel
carloads of Tanlac have gone to sup
ply the demand of British Columbia
Saskatchewan, Alberta and Mani
toba. $50
Mi. Charles Mckay, president O
Lyman Brothers & Company, Limited
of Toronto. one of the oldest.a and bes
known jobbing concerns in Canad;
says: w have handled in Ontari
Province, Canada, five car loads o
Tanlac since October, 1918. while on
total purchases have amounted to I
cars within the past two years"
The Owl Drug Company of Sal
Francisco, the largest retail drug
gists on the Pacific Coast. state tina
they lave sold more than 100000 bot
ties at retail. which surpasses the re
markable record of the Jacobs Phar
macy Company of Atlanta. who hav
sold approximately $4,000 bottles a
retail. =
These enormous sales mean but on
thing, and that is-Merit.
Tanlac is widely advertised, it j
true, but such an unprecedented an,
rapidly growing demand could not b
brought about by advertising alone
through advertising, but ten MOI
bottles are sold in that communit
after the first bottle produces results
People are always willing to tai
about their ailments, but they ar
more than willing; to tell others Of tn
medicine that helps them.
Tanlac is composed Of the mos
beneficial roots and herbs known t
science. The formula complies wit
all national and state pure food an
health laws of both the United State
and Canada; INT absolute merit an
merit alone is responsible for ii
phenomenal and unprecedented sue
cess. '
Tanlac is sold in Grand Forks b
Vold's Drug Store and the leadin
druggist in every town.-Adv.