The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-11
TANLAC BREAKS
WORLD RECORDS
Bottles Sold in Four Years
Would Reach From New
York to Denver, Col.

This IS an age Of big business, p
although the public has become sccus-
tomed to big figures, the story OF Jle
marvellous growth and development OF
ranlac forms one Of the most interest
ing chapters OF Americas latter day
commercial history. -,
-Four years ago very few people had
ever heard of Tanlac, To-day II unques-
tionably has the largest sale OF any
medicine in the world, and is as Wen
known I'm Canada as In this country.
In the brief period Of only four years
Time this now famous remedy has
teaped from obsCurity TO the very pm
hAcle Of success. Its fame, In fact, has
long since spread beyond the limits Of
the continent, and numerous inquiries
regarding it are now being received
from many foreign countries.
Very few people, however, fully real
lze what a really wonderful record Tan
lac has made, Indeed, il II 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 he hard to believe.
Up TO January LIST the total sales Of
Tanlao amounted TO approximately
twelve million bottles. The demand,
however, is increasing, for during the
first ten weeks Of his year over one
million bottles were sold and distributed
In the United States and Canada, the
exact figure being 1906. 1856 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 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
means by imagining them laid out In a
single file, end to end. Thus laid they
would make a track OF Tanlac from
New York through Chicago. and on to
Denver, Col; 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 tallest building in the
world.
The demand for Tanlac has become
sc great that its sales instead of being
measured by the gross. as other prepa-
fations have been. Is now reckoned by
the carload, and even by the trainload.
In proof Of this 1t is a noteworthy fact
that the leading drug jobbers every
where now buy Tanlac almost exclus-
lively in carload lots.
To supply the Pacific coast trade
alone requires from 40 to 50 carloads
per year, Jobbers of the Middle West
are selling from 70 to so cars per
year. One jobbing concern alone, the
Evans-Smith Drug Company. of kan
sas City, Missouri. Ia selling at the rate
OF twenty carloads of 2i,000 bottles
each per year. In a letter dated April
18th, Julius NJ. Price OF that ompany
gays: In figuring the amount Of Tan
lac sold since taking this agency we
n that we are now working on the
81 NEf anti A.a 4a
. quarter of a million packages In eight
months
The well-known drug firm Of Hesslg-
Ellis Drug Company, Of Memphis, Ten
nessee, has sold over forty carloads
since the Introduction OF Tanlac in that
state four years ago, Mr.. X, r. Ellis,
president Of that company, In authority
for the statement that the demand for
Tanlac has been greater thar n other
five medicines combined.
WITHIN the past ninety DAYS ten car
ioads OF Tanlao have gone to supply the
demand OF British Columbia, Saskatche-
wan, Alberta and Manitoba,
Mr.. Charles McD. Hay, president Of
Lyman Bros. & Co, Limited. OF To-
ronto, n OF the oldest and best known
pobbing concerns In Canada, saws. I'VE
have handled In ontario province, Can
ada, five carloads of Tanlac since De-
tober, 1918, while our total purchases
$500 ohibuilltu W IL cars Wltnln the
paet two years" "
The Owl Drug Company. of San Fran
cisco, the largest retail druggists on the
Pacific coast, state that they have sold
more than 1900 bottles at retail.
which surpasses the remarkable record
OF the Jacobs Pharmacy Company. Of
Atlanta who have sold approximately
$4,000 bottles at retail.
These enormous sales mean but one
thing. and that is--Merit.
Tanlao Is widely advertised, II is true
out such an unprecedented and rapldIv
growing demand could not be brought
about by advertising alone. One bottle
Is sold In a neighborhond through nd.
vertising. but ten more bottles are SOLD
IN that community after the first bottle
produces results, People are always
willing to talk about their ailments. hit,
tney are more than willing to tell 9TH
ers OF the medicine that helps them.
Tanlac is composed Of the most bene-
flcial roots and herbs known 10 science
The formula complies with all national
n state pure food and health laws Of
both the United States and Canada, ana
absolute merit, and merit alone. is
responsible for It's phenomenal and nm
p~recedented success.
Tanlsc Is sold in Memphis by War
mock Drug CO. and Weiss Pharmacy.
and all the leading druggists In praetI-
calty every city, town and village in
athef'ca' adv.