The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-06-12
WORLDS RECORD IS
BROKEN BY TANLAC
Bottles Sold In Four Years Would
Reach From New York to
Denver, Colorado

Four years ago very few people had
ever heard of Tanlac. Today ii un-
Questionably has the largest sale of
any medicine in the world and is as
well known in Canada as in this coun-
try. In the brief period of only four
years time this now famous remedy
has leaped from obscurity to the very
pinnacle Of success It's fame in fact,
has long since spread beyond the linn
its of the continent, and numerous in
quiries regarding 1t are now being re-
ceived 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 unquestionabe 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 distri-
buted in the United States and Can
ada, the exact figure being 1906, 1856
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 Tanlac will
be sold during every day of the year,
or 21O0 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 Tanlac
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 Mexi-
co. Piled end on end they would tow
er 1876 times as high as Pixies Peak,
or rise 1888 times higher than the
N,
tallest building in the world.
The demand for Tanlac has become
SO 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
trainload. In proof of this 1t Is a
noteworthy fact that the leading drug
gists 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.
The well known drug firm OF He's
sig-Ellis Drug Company of Memphis,
Tennessee. has sold over forty car
loads since the introduction of Tan
lac in that state four years ago.
Within the past ninety days, ten car
loads of Tanlac have gone to supply
the demand OF British Columbia, Sas-
kachewan. Alberta and Manitoba, Can
ada.
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 retail.
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 absolute merit and
merit alone is responsible for its