Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1919-05-14
REMARKABLE GROWTH sales OF TANLAC.
A Medicine Of Merit Properly Advertised is
Producing Wonderful Results.

story OF success, the K1nQ every
body likes to read. Surprising
interest always attends the tell
ing OF how a great business has
been built. This city presents a
very striking instance OF remark
able business success which has
been achieved in a very short
space of time.
The announcement has just
been made here that Tanlac, the
we'll known Medicine, which
readers of this paper have often
seen mentioned in the advertising
columns. is today the most large
ly sold medicine of its kind on the
American market; that in little
more than four years time it has
has attained definite position
of pre- eminenCe among propr1e
tary medicines Without doubt
this statement will be read with
the keenest interest. not only by
druggists, but by the general
public as well.
Briefly summarized, the out
standing incidents in this story
of success are. The discovery
of Tanlac, the perfection OF its
formula by painstaking study,
extensive research exhaustive
tests, the beginning of its manu-
facture in a small way; the
Instant demand for the product
created by successful use, and
finally the establishment Of the
large and magnificent laborato
ries at Dayton, Ohio, occul ylng
more than 10000 square feet OF
floor space, to supply that ever
increasing demand for Ianlac'
The daily capacity Of $4,000 bot
ties al this plant has at times, III
fact been found insufficient TO
the trade requirements. A branch
labatorv with 5000 bottles daily
capacity has been established at
Windsor. Canada, in order to
supply the Canadian demand,
The marvellous expansion OF
this business will easily stand
comparison with any of the re
markabie bushes achievements
of recen. tunes, AS one of the
largest drug jobbers OF the
United States said recently, it re
quires some effort of the lmagl-
nation to realize the amount OF
business that l. now being done
BY this concern, adding his belief
that nationwide popularity OF
Tanlac gained in such a short
time is nothing less than pheno-
meudl.
This latter statement was
made following the announce
ment in the daily papers that
over twelve million bottles of
Tanlac has been sold in four
years, up to January 1st, 1919,
and that during the first ten
weeks of the present year over
one million bottles had been dis
tributed- thereby establishing a
record which has perhaps never
before been equalled in the his
tory of the drug trade.
The statement that TanlaC is
now the most popular prepara-
ton and the biggest seller among
all ready-made medicines Is
based upon careful Investigations
aud is supported by the slg1ec
statements of scores of the larg
est drug jobbers of the United
States and Canada.
The broad and progressive
policies and the splendid selling
organization originated aud per
fected by G F Willis. internatlon
al distributor of Tanlac, ar
among the best examples of me
thod and system yet produced II
baa: ness and they have beel
closely followed oy many othe
enterpri5ing and successful con
Germs
Tue Tauiac people have al
wavS maintained that the bes
. advertisement Is d satisfied Gus
toner, aud to that end have al