Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-06-09
TANLAC BREAKS
WORLDS RECORD
Bottles Sold in Four Years Would
Reach From New York
to Denver.

come accustomed 10 Dig uSuTOoi
the story of the marvellous growth
and development Of Tanlac forms
one of the most interesting chap
tiers of Americas latter day COM
mercial history.
Four years ago very few people
had ever heard Of Tanlac. Today
it unquestionably has the largest
sale of any medicine in the world
and is as well known in Canada as
in this country. In the brief per-
Tod of only four years time this
now famous remedy has leaped
from obscurity to the very pima
Gle of success. It's fame, in fact,
has long since spread beyond the
limits of the continent, and numer-
Gus inquiries regarding it are now
being received from many foreign
countries.
Very few people, however. fully
realize what a really wonderful
record Tanlac has made. Indeed,
if it were not for the unQuestion-
able 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 be-
lieve.
Up to Jan. 1. the total sales of
Tanlac amounted to approximately
twelve million bottles. The de
mand, however, is increasing, for
during the first 10 weeks of this
year over one million bottles were
sold and distributed in the United
States and Canada, the exact fig
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 2,10O 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 imagin-
ing 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, Colo; or they would form
a uOublC II am Va dA1dC lIOL1 LuC
Greal Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.
Piled end on end they would tower
1875 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 be-
come so great that its sales, in
stead of being measured by the
gross. as other preparations have
been, is now reckoned by the car
load, and even by the trainload.
In proof of this. it is a notewor-
thy fact that the leading drug job
bers everywhere now buy Tanlac
almost exclusively in carload lots.
To supply the Pacific trade alone
requires from 40 to so carloads
per year. Jobbers of the middle
west are selling from 70 to 80 cars
per year. One jobbing concern
alone, the Evans-Smith Drug COM
pany of Kansas City, Mo, is sell
ing at the rate of 90 carloads of
$4,000 bottles each per year. In
letter dated April 10, julius NJ.
Price Of that company says I'm
figuring the amount of Tanlac sold
since taking this agency we find
we are now working on the 18th
car, having sold more than a quar-
ter of a million packages in eight
months"
The well known drug firm of
Hessig-Ellis Drug company of
Memphis, Tenn, has sold over
forty carloads since the introduc-
ton Of Tanlac in that state four
years ago. R. R. Ellis. president
of that company, is authority for
the statement that the demand for
Tanlac has been greater than any
other five medicines combined.
Within the last 80 days, 10 car
loads of Tanlac have gone to sup
ply the demand Of British Column
bia. Saskatchewan, Alberta and
Charles Med. Hay, president OF
Lyman Bros. e. Co, Limited, of
Toronto, one of the oldest and best
known jobbing concerns in Can
ada, says: I'VE have handled in
Ontario province, Canada, five car
loads of Tanlac since October,
AOLOs rAIAC Jul LOIdl pun CndSCS
have amounted to IL cars within
the last two years"
The Owl Drug company of San
Francisco, the largest retail drug
gists on the Pacific coast, state
that they have sold more than
10000 bottles at retail, which sur
passes the remarkable record of
the Jacobs Pharmacy company of
Atlanta, which has sold approx
nately $4,000 bottles at retail.
These enormous sales mean but
one thing, and that is-Merit.
Tan1ac is widely advertised, ii is
true, but such an unprecedented |
and rapidly growing demand could !
not be brought about by advertis- |
ng alone. One bottle is sold in a
through advertising, |
put 10 more bottles are sold in |
hat community after the first bot !
lie produces results. People are
always willing to talk about their |
but they are more than !
willing to tell others of the medi- !
;ine that helps them
Tanlac is composed OF the most |
beneficial roots and herbs known |
o science The formula complies /,
With all the national and state |
,ure food and health laws of both |
he United States and Canada; and |
Ibsolute merit and merit alone is
for its phenomenal and |