Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-06-13
TANLAC SALES
ESTABLISH NEW
WORLD RECORD
Bottles Sold in Four Years
Would Reach From New
York to Denver Colorado,

-Four years ago very few people had
ever heard of Tanlac. Today it un'
ouestionably 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 foui
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 lin
its of the continent, and numerous in.
uuiries regarding it are now being re-
ceived from many foreign countries.
Very few people. however, fully
realize what wonderful record Tan.
lac has made. Indeed. if it were not
for the unquestiona facts and fig
ures given out by the largest and best
known drug firms of the country the
story of its success would be hard 10
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 1.S06,lS6 in
three months.
At this rate therefore, the sales for
the present year will amount to more
than fiye million bottles. This will
mean that II 600 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 million
bottles mean by imagining them laid
out 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 Tan
lac from the Great Lakes TO the Gulf
of Mexico Piled on end they would
tower 1876 times as high as Pike 5
Peak, or rise 1888 times higher than
the Woolworth building in New York,
the tallest building in the world.
The demand for Tanlac has been so
great that its sales instead of being
measured by the gross as other prep
arations have been, is now reckoned
by the carload, and even by the train
load In proof of this it is a notewor-
thy fact that the leading drug 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 SELL
ing from seventy to eighty cars per
year.
The well known drug firm of Hes
sig Ellis Drug company OF Memphis,
Tenn, has sold over forty carloads
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 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 ut
retail, which surpasses the remarkable
record of the Jacobs Pharmacy COM
pany of Atlanta, who have sold APP
proximately $4,000 bottles at RETAIL.
The formula complies with all nation
al and state pure food and health
laws of both the United States and
Canada; and absolute merit and merit
alone is responsible for its phenome-
nal and unprecedented success.
Tanlac is sold in Albuquerque at
the Alvarado Pharmacy.-Adv