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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1918
Page
6
Tanlac, a vegetable tonic, has sold over nine million bottles in three years with a projected twelve million by year end. Dayton laboratories cover 60,000 square feet, daily capacity 30,000 bottles, with a Canada plant enabling eight thousand daily. Public endorsements span judges, mayors, doctors, and officials across the U S and Canada.
Extracts from letters and telegrams by drug firms across the United States and Canada praise Tanlac sales growth. Firms include Bartell Drug Store Seattle, H G Elllis Drug Co Nashville, Spurlock Neal Co Knoxville, Kuhlman Chambelliss Co Dallas, Greiner Kelly Drug Co Jacksonville, Bettes Pharmacy Houston, Southern Drug Co Boise, Chas L Joy & Co Ft Worth, Maxwell Clark Drug Co San Antonio, Wagner Drug Co Atlanta, Lamar Rankin Drug Co Birmingham, Doster Northington Detroit, Lyman Brothers Salt Lake City, and others noting hundreds of thousands of bottles sold and strong dealer enthusiasm.
Denver drug firm Stewart and Holmes reports selling 75 648 bottles of Tanlac since becoming distributor last April. The note credits agent Willis for strong performance and recommends others take on the agency.
Atlanta pharmacy reports selling Taniac at over 2000 bottles weekly and notes a single Saturday sale of about 700 bottles across eleven Atlanta stores. The firm, holding executive agency since 1915, says it has sold over 75 000 bottles.
Macon Drug Company Lamar Taylor Riley report that they have bought and sold 125000 bottles of Tanlac, over ten carloads, amid strong demand. The note dated March 9 1918 from Macon Georgia to Atlanta Georgia confirms sales experience.
A broad range of distinguished professionals including judges mayors officials bankers lawyers doctors editors educators and ministers endorse Tanlac as a medical triumph. The list cites McKenzie Mona Frank V Kivana Moses R Glenn G W De La Perriere John B Gaines George W Hinton and others with claims of widespread benefits and growing demand from the press and dealers.
Dr Wm E F Bingham president of the Alabama state board of pharmacy endorses Tanlac through a 1916 Tuscaloosa letter. He notes agency sales of 1 100 bottles and a steady 200 monthly rate with high local approval and repeat orders. He praises Tanlac for producing satisfactory results in chronic cases and thanks the manufacturer for cooperation.
Tanlac claims a near four million bottles per year production and one million bottles sold in nine months. G F Willis cites Spuriock Neal Co of Nashville and C M Martin as key figures in rapid distribution and industry impact. He credits long study by Mr Cooper and his chemist, noting the discovery's vast, unfolding success.
The Pacific Coast steamship Admiral Evans struck Hawk Inlet rocks near Juneau Saturday evening and is now submerged at high tide. Salvage crews from Victoria and Seattle rush to pare the hull and float the vessel. cargo loss expected while 91 passengers were taken to Juneau aboard the Princess Sophia.
Harry Brandt age 19 of the YMCA and Minas Hertha McGearhart age 23 of 723 12th Ave were held up by two armed men Sunday night on Madison Street between Broadway and Hoyleton. A revolver was fired as they fled. Brandt was wounded in the hip while escaping with McGearhart toward Broadway where Lieut Merrill of Fort Flagler and Philip Norton of 104 Beventh Ave N aided them to the hospital.
Seattle weather man G N Salisbury notes March brings snow or freezing weather with 11 significant snow events, seven trace snows, and 11 years without snow in the last 79 years. He calls March an unusual month for snowfall patterns.
Three thousand Yanks at Camp Lewis gathered to sing popular and war songs led by Singing Instructor Robert Lloyd. No orchestra, but strong volume and harmony filled the scene as the men joined in familiar tunes.
Patriotism dominated the annual Founders' day banquet held by 87 members of the Sienna Alpha Epsilon fraternity at the College club Saturday night. Many members were in uniforms.
Salt Lake City March 11 Lieutenant William Gleason collapsed and died on a train platform Thursday night. Authorities ordered an investigation into possible poisoning by alien enemies.
The West Side Parent-Teachers' association hosts a patriotic war garden meeting in the West Seattle High School auditorium Tuesday night. Thomas R. Horner of the Northwest food administration, Ronald B. Chapman city supervisor of school gardens, and Capt. Ira Nelson, recently returned from France, will speak on food conservation gardening and food conditions in the war zone.
Mrs. M Strautman of Port Blakeley faces potential loss of home after helping Alice Lauborg a Russian immigrant who ran away. Under $500 bond to the government as custodianship guarantee she became liable for payment when the girl vanished on Friday.
The 18th Engineers Northwest unit issued The Spiker to keep families informed. Copies arrived in the city as Grand Duke Michael, brother of the former Czar, was arrested in Petrograd on suspicion of joining a German plot to restore the monarchy with several Russian officers detained.
An appeal to readers about inherited blood disorders and the use of S. S. S. as a long standing remedy. The article promotes the product as a pure vegetable antidote that cleanses the blood and offers free medical advice from the Swift Specific Co. in Atlanta.
Musterole, a white mustard oil ointment, is recommended by doctors for sore throat bronchitis croup stiff neck asthma neuralgia and many aches. It is advertised as a non blistering alternative to mustard plaster with hospital sizes priced at $2.50.
An advertisement warns of blood poisoning from minor scratches and promotes Hamlin's Wizard Oil as a first aid antiseptic for wounds, sprains, burns and other pains. It touts quick relief, a 30 cent price, money back guarantee, and also sells Wizard Liver Whips for constipation and headaches at 30 cents.
A Wednesday meeting in Mme Louise K Lepper's hall will feature the First Girl Cadets of Washington entertaining Jacob Jones survivors. Salvation Army war service fund work to cease during Liberty loan and Red Cross drives. treasury officials urge stopping such movements during the Liberty loan operation.
Western farmers will receive 9 cents per bushel or 20 cents per bag for sacks used for sacked wheat of the 1918 crop. The increase amounts to 11 cents per bag over last year's allowance, announced by R. A. Lewin, second vice president of the Grain Corporation, Federal Food Administration.
The Municipal league committee reported Friday that it had practically solved the problem of housing the workers of the large industrial plants.
Government officials deny time extension exemptions for homestead improvements to employees of shipbuilding plants. The first assistant secretary of the interior conveyed word on Monday that such improvements and extensions are not to be granted to these workers.
The YMCA membership drive begins Monday with Seattle and Portland branches in the contest. About 100 boys on each side participate to raise their association membership percentage.
An old advertisement touts lemon juice mixed with orchard white to create a quarter pint skin whitening lotion. It claims to remove blemishes freckles sallowness and tan while softening rough reddened areas with daily facial and body use.
A historical health remedy claims eating meat forms uric acid that overworks kidneys. It urges daily four ounces of rad Salts with a lemon grape acid mix to neutralize acids, flush urinary waste, relieve dull kidney pain, and prevent bladder disorders. It promotes Jad as inexpensive harmless lithia drink used by many to avoid bladder disease.
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