Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-06-13
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
unquestionably has tne largest sale
of any medicine in the world, and is
as well known in Canada as in this
country. In the brief period of only
four years of time this now famous
remedy has leaped from obscurity to
the very pinnacle of success. It's fame
in fact, has long since spread beyond
the limits of the continent, and nu-
merous inquiries regarding it are now
being received from many foreign
countries.
Very few people, however, fully
realize what really wonderful rec
ord 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 its sue
cess would be hard to believe.
Up to January first, the total sales
of Tanlac amounted to approximate
ly twelve million bottles. The demand
however, is increasing, for during the
first ten weeks Of this year over one
million bottles were sold and dis
ltributed in the United States and
Canada, the exact figure being l.
| 306,186 in three months.
At this rate, therefore, the sales
for the present year will amount to
more than five million bottles. This
will mean that 1900 bottles of Tan
lac 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 mil
| lion bottles mean by imagining them
lid out in single file end go 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 Tanlac
from the Great 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 to great that It's sale instead of
being measured by the gross as other
preparations have been, is now reck-
oned by the carload, and even by the
trainload. In proof of this it is a
noteworthy fact that the leading
druggists jobbers everywhere now
buy Tanlac amost exclusively in car
load lots. To supply the Pacific coast
trade alone requires from forty to
fifty carloads per year. Jobbers of
the Middle West are selling from
seventy to eighty cars per year.
The we'll known drug firm of Hes
sig-Ellis Drug company, of Memphis,
Tennessee, has sold over forty car
loads since the introduction of Tan
lac 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 Manito-
pa, 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
at retail, which surpasses the remark
able record of the Jacobs Pharmacy
Company of Atlanta, who have sold
$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
States and Canada; and absolute mer-
it and merit alone is responsible for
its phenomenal and unprecedented
success.
Tanlac is sold by leading druggists
everywhere.