The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-08
'TANLAC BREAKS
 WORLD RECORDS
Bottles Sold in Four Years Would Reach From New
 York to Denver, Col.

This is an age of big business, and although the public has become ac- cCstomed to big figures, the story of the marvellous growth and development of Tanlac forms one of the most in- teresting chapters of Americas latter day commercial history.
 Four years ago very few people had ever heard of Tanlac Today it unoues- tlonably has the largest sale of any medicine in the world, and is as well known In Canada as in this country. Tn the brief period of only four years time this now famous remedy has leaped from obscurity to the very pin acle of success. It's 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 re- alize what really wonderful record Tanlac has made. Indeed, if it were not for the unquestionable facts and fig ures 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 1, the total sales of Tanlac amounted to approximately 12,- 000,000 bottles. The demand however, is increasing, for during the first 10 weeks of this year over 100000 bot
  United States and Canada, the exact figure being 1906, 1S6 in three months.
 At this rate, therefore, the sales for the present year will amount to more than 5,000,000 bottles. This will mean that 17000 bottles of Tanlas will be sold during every day of the year. or 2100 bottles for every hour of the aver age working day.
 These figures are too stupendous for
 
 may visualize what 12,000,000 bottles means by imagining them laid out in single file end to end. Thus laid they would make track of Tanlac from New York through Chicago, and on to Den yer, 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 1855 times high as Pikes 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 so great that its sales instead of being measured by the gross as other pre- parations have been, is now reckoned by the carload, and even by the train- load. In proof of this it is a noteworthy fact that the leading drug jobbers everywhere now buy Tanlac almost ex- clusively 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 Kansas City, i Mo. is selling at the rate of 20 car loads of 24,000 bottles each per year. l In letter dated April 19, Julius M. l Price of that company says: Tn fig | uring the amount of Tanlac sold since | fC lr rtr,r hfc.,, +I@,t now working on the thirteenth car, | having sold more than a quarter of a |, million packages in eight months"
 The well known durg firm of Hessig- | Ellis Drug company of Memphis. Tenn | has sold over 40 carloads since the in- | troduction of Tanlac in that state four | years ago. MT. R. R. Ellis, president of | that company is authority for the state | ment that the demand for Tanlac has | been greater than any other five medi- | cines combined
 Within the past 90 days, 10 carloads or Ianiac nave gone to supply the de- mand of British columbia. Saskache- wan, Alberta and Manitoba
 MT. Charles McD Hay, president of ronto, one of the oldest and best known jobbing concerns in Canada, says: We have handled in Ontario province, Canada, five carloads of Tan lac since October, 1918 while our total purchases have amounted to 12 cars within the past 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 1S0,000 bottles at re- n tail. which surpasses the remarkable record of the Jacobs Pharmacy com pany of Atlanta, who have sold approx imately So,000 bottles at retail.
 These enromous sales mean but one thing, and that is-Merit.
 Tanlac is widely advertised. it is true |. put such an unprecedented and rapidly growing demand could not be brought about by advertising alone One bottle is sold in a neighborhood through ad- vertising, but 10 more bottles are sold In that community after the first bottle produces results. People are always willing to talk about their ailments but they are more than willing to tell others of the medicine that helps them. Tanlac is composed of the most ben !. ehcial roots and herbs known to science. The formula complies with all , national and state pure food and health | aws of both the United States and Cam ' ada; and absolute merit and merit { aione is responsible for it's paenomena, { and unprecedented success. ] Tanlac is sold in Birmingham by Eu- /; gene Jacobs drug store and Patton i 'ope Drug company, and by the leading | druggists in practically every city, town n Ind village in America.-Ady z