The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-06-11
Worlds Record is
Broken by IanIac
Bottles Sold In Four Years Would
Reach From New York to
Denver Colo.

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Four years agovery few people had
ever heard of Tanlac. Today it UNI
questionably has the largest sale OF
any medicine in the world, and is as
well known in Canada as in this couna
try. In the brief period of only four
wears time this now famous remedy
has leaped from obscurity 20 the very
pinnacle of success. It's fame in fact
has long since spread beyond the lin.
it's of the continent, and numerous
inquiries regarding it are now being
received from many foreign countries,
Very few people, fully realize re.
ally wonderful record Tanlac has made,
Indeed, if it were not for the unquesr
tionable facts and figures given out
| by the largest and best known drug
firms of the country the story of lis
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 distribue.
led in the United State and Canada
the exact figure being 1,306,186 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 Tanlao
will be sold during every day of The
year, or 210O 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 bot-
ties mean by imagining them laid out
| in single file end to end. Thus laid
they would make a track of Tanlae
from New York through Chicago, and
on 20 Denver, Colorado; or they would
, form double track of Tanlac from the
II Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico,
Piled end on end they would tower
1876 times as high as Pixies Peak, os
, rise 13, 1873 times higher than the Woolu
|. worth Building in New York, the talu
lest building in the world.
The demand for Tanlac has becoms
! so great that its sale instead of be-
: ing measured by the gross as other
preparations have been is now recko1'
: ed by the car load, and even by the
train load. In proof of this it is a
r noteworthy fact that the leading drug
r jobbers everywhere now buy Tanlac
almost exclusively in car load lots, 70
! supply the Pacific coast trade alone
t requires from forty to fifty car loads
: per year-Jobbers of the Middle West
/, are. selling from seventy to eighty cars
per year.
The well known drug firm of Hessis
). Ellis Drug Company of Memphis
Tenn, has sold over forty car loads
since the introduction of Tanlac IN
that, state four years ago.
/ Within the past ninty days. ten Cal
loads of Tanlac have gone to supply
q the demand of British Columbia, Sas'
kachewan, Alberta and Manitoba, Can
$ ada.
S The Owl Drug Company of Sar
Francisco, the largest retail druggist
y on the Pacific Coast, state that thes
: have sold more than 10000 bottles4at
retail, which surpasses the remarkable
1 record of the Jacobs Pharmacy Com.
pany of Atlanta, who have sold ap.
: proximately $4,000 bottles az retail
Tanlac is composed of the most ben,
eficial roots and herbs known to sci,
ence. The formula complies with all
national and state pure food and healtf
4 laws of both the United States and
4 Canada; and absolute merit and merit
alone is responsible for its phenom-
email and unprecedent success.
Tanlac is sold in Redwood Falls by
Public Drug Co. in Belview by A. f,
Abraham, in Milroy by Frank Taplin,
in Revere by Henry N. Takee and in
Lamberton by M. E. Anderson.