Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-11-06
TANLAC BREAKS
WORLDS RECORD
Bottles Sold in Four Years
Would Reach From New
York to Denver.
DEMAND UNPRECEDENTED
fame Has Long Since Spread
Beyond the Limits of
This Continent.

.,,n h,s is an age OF big business. md
ai.hough the public has become 80
Ihs s''neu TO big figures. tho story or
incnt OF Tanlac form. onn ~, op
interesting chapters of Americas io3
'eI Jay commercial history
four years ago very few ,eon,.
e Eve. heard OF Tanlac-today II nnonc.-
mnhin,y mas inc largest sale OF any
known In Canada as I'm ,b,a "ci
an inc prief period of only four ,,a,s
time this now famous re,nnhv 90
leapcd from obscurity to the vsr.,
pinnacle OF success. Its fame, in faci
has Lon. since spread bcvond -
liInits OF the continent, and n,,r,, emo
INQUIRIES regarding II are now bcinE
| received from many foreign countries
very rev people, however. fully real
."e what really wonderful record
Ianiac mas made. Indeed. IL It wero
not Tor tho unQuestionable facts ana
hsures given out by the largest and
pest known drug firms Of the country
inc story OF it's success would be hard
to believe.
Up to January ist. the total sales OF
,,,. amounted to approximately
twelve million bottles. The demand
however. is increasing. for during the
hrst ten weeks OF this year over one
million bottles were sold and dis,rih-
utcd in the United States and Canada.
the exact figure being l.3o6.ls6 in three
months.
At this rate. therefore. the sales for
the present year will amount to more
than five million bottles This VII,
mean that 1900 bottles Of TanIac win
be sold during every day OF the year.
or 2.loo 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 imagining them laid
out in single file end to end Thu,
laid they would mako Il track OF Tan
lac from New York through Chicago.
and on TO Denver, Col: or they would
form double track OF Tanlac from The
Great Lakes to the Gulf Of Mexico
Piled end on end, they would tower l3J
times as high as Pixies Peak, or rise
1898 times higher than the Wool
worth Building, in New York, the ALI
est building in the world.
The demand for Tanlac has become
go great that it's sales. instead Of being
measured by the gross. As other nrep-
arations have been. is now reckoned
by the carload and even by the train
load. In proof OF this II Is a note
worthy fact that the leading drug Job
bers everywhere now buy TanIac
almost exclusively in carload lots
TO supply the Pacific Coas, ,rade
loads per year. Jobbers OF the Middle
West arc selling from seventy to
eighty cars per year One jo6bing
concern alone. the Evans-Smith Drug
Company. OF Kansas City. Mo. Is SELL
Ing at the rate OF twenty carloads OF
1900 bottles each per year. In let
ter dated April 10Th. julius NJ. Price.
Of that company. says: I'm figuring
the amount OF Tanlac sold since TAX.
ing this agency. we find that We are
now working on the thirteenth car.
having sold more than a quarter OF a
million packages in eight months"
The weil-known drug firm OF Hessig.
Ellis Drug Co.. Of Memphis. Tenn. has
sold over forty carloads since the In
PRODUCTION OF Tanlac in that State four
years ago. Mr.. r. r. Ellis. president
OF that company. is authority for the
statement that the demand for Taniac
has been greater than any other five
medicines combined.
Within the past ninety days. ten
carloads of Tanlac have gone 10 supply
the demand OF British Columbia.
Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba.
Mr.. Charles Med. Hay. president OF
Lyman Brothers & Co, Limited, OF
Toronto. one of the oldest and best
known jobbinE concerns In Canada.
says: We have handled in Ontario
Province, Canada, 1--WE carloads Of Tan
lac since October. 1913. while our total
within the past two years"
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 remarkah
record OF the Jacobs Pharmacy Com
pany. Of Atlanta. who have sold APP
proximateiy $4,000 bottles at retail.
These enormous sales mean but one
thing, and that is--Merit =
'Tanlac Is widely advertised, Its Is
true. but such an unprecedented and
rapidly growing demand could nots be
brought about by advertising alone.
One bottle is sold In q neiGhborhood
through advertising, but ten more bot
ties are sold in that community after
the first bottle produces results. Peo-
Pile are always willing to talk about
their ailments. but they are more than
willing to tell others OF tho medicine
that helps them. sLi
Tanlac is composed Of the most
beneficial roots and herbs known to
science. The formula complies with
all national and State pure food ard
health laws Of both the United States
and Canada; and absolute merit. and
merit alone, IS responsible for It's phe-
nomenaI and unprecedented success
Tanlac Is sold in Richmond by Tragic
Drug Co and Grant Drug Co.-Adv.