The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-06-10
WORLDS RECORD IS
BROKEN BY TANLAC
Bottles Sold in Four Years
Would Reach From New
York to Denver, Colo.

Four years ago very few people had
ever heard of Tanlac. Today it I'M
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 obscuriey to the very
pinnacle of success. It's fame. in fact,
has long since spread beyond the linn
its Of the continent and numerous in
quiries regarding it are now being re-
ceived from many foreign countries.
Very few people. however. fully rea-
lie what a really 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 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 distrib-
Gted in the United States and Canada,
the exact figure being 1.3o6.186 in
three months.
At this rate, therefore, the sales for
the present year will amount to more
than FIVE million bottles. This will
mean IL 900 bottles of Tanlac will be
sold during every day of the year, or
2100 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 track of Tan
lac from New York through Chicago,
and or 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 as high as Pixies Peak
or rise 1888 times higher than the
Woolworth building in New York, the
talIest building in the world.
The demand for Tanlac has become
so great that its sale instead of be-
ing measured by the gross as other
preparations have been, is now reck-
oned by the carload, and even by the
train load. In proof of this it is
noteworthy fact that the leading
druggist jobbers everywhere now buy
Tanlac almost exclusively in carload
lots. To supply the Pacific coast trade
alone requires from forty to fifty car
loads per year. Jobbers of the mid
die west are selling from seventy to
eighty cars per year.
The well known drug firm of
Hessig- Ellis Drug company of Mem
phis, Tennessee, has sold over forty
carloads 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-
kachewan. 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 100000 bottles |
at retail. which surpasses the remark
able record of the Jacobs Pharmacy |
company of Atlanta, who have sold |
approximately $4,000 bottles at retail. |
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 and
Canada; and absolute merit and merit
alone is responsible for its phenome-
nal and unprecedented success.
Tanlac is sold by leading druggists
everywhere.-(adv).