The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-06-10
TANLAC NOW HAVING
LARGEST SALE ANY
MEDICINE IN WORLD
Bottles Sold in Four Years
Would Reach From New
York to Denver

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and development Of Taniac forms
ono OF the most interesting chap
tiers OF Americas latter day COM
rnsrcinl history.
-Four years ngo very few people
had ever heard Of Taniae--todsy Il
Internationally has the larwcr, sale
Of any medicine In the world. and
" a. well known In Canada as In
this country. In the brief period
81 only four years time this now
famous remedy has ieaped from
otacurity to the very pinnacle 81
success. ita fame. in Saet. has lonr
since spread beyond me limits of
the continent and numerous lnauir-
lee regarding u arc nov being re-
ceived from many foreign eoun-
tries
Very few people. however. fully
realize what really wonderful
record Tsnlae has made. Indeed.
n u were no, for the unauentiona-
bic facts and figures given out by
tho largest and best known drug
firms Of tho country the story of
its success would be hard 10 be-
iieve
Up 20 January first. the total
sales 81 Tanlac amounted 10 an.
proyimateiy twelve million bottIsa
The demand. however. IL increas-
ing. for during IN. fret ten weeks
OF this year over one million bot
ties were sold and distributed In
the United States and Canada. tn.
exact figure being / .sos lac In three
months.
At this rate. therefore. tho sales
for ths present year will amount
To NOR" than five million bottles.
This will mean that 1900 bottles
Of Tanlac will H. sold during every
day Of the year. or 2ioo bottles
for every hour Of the average
working day.
These figures are too stupendour
for the average mind To grasp. hut
one may visualize what twelve mil
Hon BOTTLES means by imagining
them laid In Alngie file. end
20 end. Thus laid They would
make 4 track Of Tanlac from New
York through Chicago. and on 90
Denver. Colorado. or they would
form a double track OF Taniar
from the Great Lakes to the Cult
o. Mexico. Piled snd on end they
would tower las times as high as
Pixies Peak. or rtae 1898 ,im~a
higher than the woolworfh Huild.
Ing in New York. IN. tRllesi build
ina IN tho world.
The demand for TanlAc has be.
come 80 great that its Hales instead
% being neasurrd by tho gross.
a. other. preparations have been.
y NOW reckonoJ b. the carload.
and even by the trainload. In proof
fof this u is a noteworthy fact
that the leading drug joshers cv-
erywhrrc now buy Tanlar almost
exclusively IN carload lots.
To supply tho Pacific Coast
trade alone requires from forty
To MY car loads per year.
Jobbers ~ the Middle West are
selling from seventy 20 eighty cars
per year. one tobbing concern
alone. the Evans-Smith Drug Com.
pany 81 Kansas CITY. Missouri. "a
selling at the rate Of twenty car
loads 81 $4,000 bottles each per
year. In a letter dated April 18Th.
Julius ". Price % that company
says; In figuring tn. amount 81
Tanlac sold since taking this
agency We find that We are now
working on the thirteenth car. hav-
Ing sold more than quarter Of
a million packages in eight
months"
The we'll known drug firm Of
Hessig Ellis Drug Company. OF
Memphis. Tennessee, has sold over
forty car loads since the introduc-
ton Of Tanlac in that state four
years ago Mr.. II. r. Ellis. Presi-
dent OF that company. Il authority
for the statement that the demand
for Tanlac has been greater than
any other five medicines combined
Within the past ninety days. ten
carloads OF Tanlac have gone TO
supply the demand OF British CO.
lumbia. Saskatchewan. Alberta and
Manitoba.
Mr.. Charles Med. Hay, President
OF Lyman Brothers q Company.
Limited. Of Toronto. ono OF the
oldest and best known jobbinx
concerns in Canada. says. we
have handled in Ontario Province.
Canada. five carloads OF Taulac
since october. 1918. while our total
purchases have amounted to IL
cars within the past two years"
The owl Drug Company ~ San
Francisco. the largest retail drug
gists on the Pacific Coast state
that they have sold moro than $50.
900 bottles Mt retail. which sur
passes the remarkable record of the
Jacobs Pharmacy Company Of At.
lanta. who have sold approximate.
~ 10000 bottles AT retail
These enormous sales mean but
one thing, and that is Merit
Tanlac Is widely advertised. II IL
true. but such an Unprecedented
and rapidly growing demand could
not be brought about by adyertia-
ing alone. one bottle In sold In a
neighborhood through advertising.
but ten more bottles are sold In
that community after the first bot
tie produces results. People are al
ways willing to talk about their
ailments. but they arc more than
willing 10 tell others OF the medl-
cine that helps them.
Tanlac Is composed Of the most
beneficial roots and herbs known
10 science. The formula complies
with all national and state pure
food and health laws of both the
United States and Canada: and alb
solute merit and merit alone IL re-
sponsible for It's phenomenal and
unprecedented success.