The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-06-11
TANLAC SALES
ESTABLISH A
NEW RECORD
Bottles Sold in Four Years
Would Reach from New
York to Denver

-Four years ago very few people had
ever heard OF Tanlae--today II I'm
ques,ionably has the largest sale OF
any medicine IN the world. and is ~
well known in Canada as in this coun
try IN the brioi period OF only -four
years time this now famous femcdv
has leaped from obscurl,y TO the very
pinacle OF success. It's fame. in fact,
has long since spread beyond the lin
ito Of the continent, and numerous in
quiries regarding Il are now being
received from many foreign countries.
Very few people, however, fully
realize what . really wonderful rec
ord Tanlse has made. Indeed, II II
we're not for the unquestionable facts
and figures given out BY the largest
and best known drug firms d the
eountr, the story OF Its success would
be hard to believe.
Up 10 January first, the total sales
Of Tanlac amounted to approximately
twelve million bottles. The demand.
however, IL increasing, for during the
first ten weeks OF this year over one
million bottles were sold and d'-
tribu,ed, in the United States and
Canada, the exact figures being l.
M. l& In three months
At this rate, therefore. the sales
for the present year will amount -
more than five million bottles. This
will mean that 1900 bottles Of Tan.
lac will be sold during every day of
the year. or 2.l00 bottles for every
hour Of the sverage working day.
TMse figure, are too stupendous
for the average mind to grasp. but
one may visualize what twelve million
bottle, mean by imagining them laid
out in a single file end 10 end Thus
laid they would make track OF Tan
lac from New York through Chicago
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 lbs times as high as Pixies 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 be-
ing measured by the gross as other
preparations have been. Is now reek-
oned by the carload. and even by the
train load. In proof Of this il Is a
noteworthy fact that the leading drug
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
eighty cars per year One jobbing
concern alone, the Evans Smith Drug
Company. OF Kansas City. Missouri, IS
kypliing at the rate of twenty car loads
~ k240W bottles each per year, In a
. M dated April 10Th, Julius N, Price
3 HIT company says: in figuring
y amount Of Tanlac sold since taxi
this agency we find that we are
now working on the thirteenth car,
having sold more than q quarter OF
million packages in eight months
The we'll known drug firm Of
Hessig- Ellis Drug Company, OF Mem
phis, Tennessee, has sold over' forty
car loads since the introduction OF
Tanl,e in that state four years ago
Mr.. R. r. Ellis. President Of that COM
pany is authority for the statement
that the demand for Tanlac ha, been
greater than any other five medicines
combined
Within the past ninety days, ten car
loads OF Tanlac have gone 10 supply
the demand Of British Columbia,
Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Manitoba
Mr.. Charles |McD, Hay, President
Of Lyman Brothers 4 Company. Lin.
tied. al Toronto, one Of the oldest and
best known lcbbing concerns In Can
ada says: I'VE have handled in On.
tarlo Province, Canada, five car loads
Of TanAc since October, 1918 while
our total purchases have amounted 10
II cars within the past two years"
The Owl Drug Company Of San
Frsneiseo, the largest retail druggists
on the Pacific Coast, state that they
have sold more than 10000 bottles a.
retail, which surpaMe, the remarkable
record Of the Jacobs Pharmacy Com
psny of Atlanta. who have sold ap-
proxinately 5000 bottles n retail,
These enormous sales mean but one
thinf and vhat is--Merit.
TsAlae 10 widely advertised. Il is
true, but such IN unprecedented and
| rapidly growing demand Could not
be brought sbost Ny advertising alone.
One bottle Il sold In 4 neishborhood
through advertising. but ten more bot.
ties are sold In that community after
the first bottle produces results, Poo.
pie are aiesys willing to talk abcut
their ailments. but they are more than
willing 10 tell others Of the medicine
that helps them.
raalse h composed sf the most ben.
efielsl rootp and herbs known 70 sci.
enee, The iormula COMPLIES With oil
national and state pure food and
health laws Of both the United States
and Canada; and absolute merit and
merit alone is responsible for its
phenomenal and unprecedented sue.
cess.
Tanlae IL sold IN Oklahoms CITY by
the Westfall Drug Co. and leading
druggists and dealers everywhere,
(Adv)