The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-06-11
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 UNI
questionably has the largest sale Of
any medicine in the, world, and is
as we'll known in Canada as in this
country. In the brief period of only
four years time this now famous rem
edy has leaped from obscurity to the
very pinnacle of success. Its fame in
fact, has long since spread beyond
the limits of the continent and num-
erous 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 success would
be hard to believe.
Up to January first the total sales
of Tanlac amounted to approximately
twelve million bottles. The demand
however is increasing, for during the
first ten weeks of this year over one
million bottles were sold and distrib-
uted in the United States and Can
ada, the exact figures being 1906
1876 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 $4,000 bottles of Tan
lac will be sold during every day OF
the year, or 2,100 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 mean 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 Chi
cago, 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 1876 times as high
as Pixies Peak, or raise 1888 times
higher than the Woolworth Building
in New York, the tallest building in
the world.
The demand for Tanlac has become
50 great that its sale instead of be-
ing measured by the gross as other
preparations have been, is now reck-
oned by the carload, and even by the
train load. In proof of this it is a
noteworthy fact that the leading
druggist jobbers everywhere now buy
Tanlac almost exclusively in car load
lots. To supply the Pacific Coast trade
alone requires from forty to fifty car
loads per year-Jobbers Of the Middle
West are selling from seventy to eigh-
ty cars per year.
The we'll known drug firm Of Hes
sig-Ellis Drug Company of Mem
phis, Tennessee, has sold over forty
car loads since the introduction Of
Tanlac in that state four years ago.
Within the past ninety days, ten
car loads of Tanlac have gone to
supply the demand of British Column
bia, Saskatchewan, Alberta and Mani
toba, Canada.
The Owl Drug Company of San
Francisco, the largest retail druggists
on the Pacific Coast, state that they
have sold more than 100000 bottles
at retail, which surpasses the remark
able record of the Jacobs Pharmacy
Company of Atlanta, who have sold
approximately $4,000 bottles at. re-
tail. -
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 absolutesmerit and
merit alone is responsible for its phe-
nominal and unprecedented success
Tanlac is sold in Bemidji by City
Drug Store, in Kelliher by Mrs. r.
Sterling, in Blackjack by French &
Moon, and in Beaadette by J. w.
Williams.