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If X MILLION DOLLAR CO. WILL MARKET TANLAC THROUGHOUT WORLD Business Has Grown From Small Beginning Six Years Ago Until Now It Is One of the Largest in the World With Big Foreign Demand. By HARRISOPiVAUGHN. ATLANTA, A , January 14 -An nonncemont h.'i. just Imh-ii made hero of the organization of tin- 1 iiterim' ional rropriotariin, Inr , to take mrr tin- liii incus heretofore conducted ley i. K Wil lis International Pistril.utor of T.uil.'i.-, Bind tho Willi Mcluihe ('otiipanv, Kast frn Dint rilmtors, of this city. The new company has a paid-in capi tal of One Million Dollars and is one of the largest proprietary .medicine con cerns in the world. The business of the corporation will be conducted by the present management, which owns the en tire capital stock It is understood that no part of the stock will be offered to the public. Tho officers of the company an- i V, Wrillia, President ; 1' '. M. Dufli. , Vice President; M. A Crumley, Treasurer ; J. C. (IooiIhoii, Secretary. Mr. Willis in a prominent Atlanta toaineiui man ami a will known liun' in thfl drug aiol advertising field in liotli the United States unil Cnna.la. I'mlcr the (lirirtion of Mr. Willis, the foumler of the hiiHines.H, it lias attained its pres ent position in the very front rank of the country's proprietary medicine in duntrics . Mr. Mi'Dufiii'. lio hax lnvn a lug fac tor with Mr. Willis in timlding up 1 he buainetw in the past five years, i.-. a lea. I mjf Aiiama citizen and Mimiiicmh man ainl is widely known to the drug trade throughout the country. The new Company, which is the logi cal outcome of tlui.j?upii growth and ex pansion of the laisiness, will market a number of internationally advert im-d and internationally solil proprietary and pharmaceutal products, including Ton icjf. Aspirin TaMets, Cold Specifies Lax ativo Tablets, etc. SALE UNPRECEDENTED. Tanlao, their principal product, is probably the most extensively advertised and the most largely sold proprietary nit ilii'ine of its kwiil in trie orl,, ap proximately L'U.iMUMiuu ImttleM having been Mild since its introduction six years a no. An instance of the rapid growth and ileelipniellT of till' business with At lanta as ttie priucipa: Iiea,,iiarters is the statement that its product are now advertised in more than seven thousand newspapers in the fiiited States and Canada, and that the advertising appro priauuii for this vear will he in exci"ss of One Million Hollars The success and permanency of the business is assured from the fact that it has shown a rapid and substantial in crease each year since its organization ami me inrtiier laet tnat tlie husiiiess for the year just past shows an increase of approximately s.ij ,i,.r ,ent over the preceding year. BIG FOREIGN DEMAND To supply the demand for Tanlac it has hifii necessary to erect two great modern Laboratories one at Dayton, Ohio, and the other at Walkerville, Can ada. These Laboratories represent the last word in modern construction and laboratory equipment. The two plants have a combined floor space of approxi mately 7(1,000 sipiare feet, wh a com hined daily capacity of tiO.OUO bottles. Tanlac, which is a medicine of recog nized therapeutic value and uti'iicstiou cd merit, is now sold in practically ev ery city, town and hamlet throughout the Tinted States ami Canada. In fact, it is a household word throughout A nffT ica . The new Company will not only un dertake the further expansion of the business in foreign countries, where there is a steadily increasing demand, but con templates acipiiring at an early date ad ditional manufacturing facilities in this country ami Canada. The Company is tloing an annual business of from ."), himi.ihiii to .tti.iaill.liilil with an annual pay roll of approximately L'.'ii.liiiu . The executives and sales offices occupy more than an entire floor of the I'ourth Na tional Hank Kuihling in this citv. EewYorfc letter i bg Lucy Jeanne Price i. r ii .fit, ..r to lid the It NEW YOKK, Jan. U.-Anyone cher ishing an ideal that New York is incline.! ' to race suicide ought to spend an evening in a Grand street movie. There is a par ticularly favorite movie house there, as ; everywhere else, and a whole Meet of hahy carriages outside its door identify '. the place every evening. A iitor from uptown was startled the other evening right in the midst of the innocent hero- ; ini's rescue from the villain's toils, when I the door man appeared in the nile-at her i side and called nut in penetrating tones, ! "The baby in the white buggy i i-ry in" No one else M'ein. d surprised, though, aiol the j.ietuie rolled on. while a stout matron m-,. ;,nd i.urri. ! out. The uptowiie riiiiirinureil to her.-.f that she must have struck mother" night, nut the small hoy next t . her put iu-r right. "No. it ain't. ' he s:i;. TI.ev ill, is call out i I' ! he h:i hies , I V. ' ' . Alfred K. Smith; lately gov rimr ..f the JState, has complete. i the eir. le. lie's a trucklllali, once mole. He -!;u'i,, ;1 the business hack ill 1 !!, ;,i,, w he's back as direct" of tin- l'ti:v. s,.,p, , ' Trucking t m p. .rat : I n -.,n, port your goods in line -:;ii; . ' ' j... .... ! lares, hut I , : v ,,, , :. ., ; j"b. 1 'ill out of polltl. ! Yes, . I won 't ; in, t'er n, a aa i I . .: ': : i ; t . . , . i i or si ii :i i ,.r. I ui a u,-, , j and glad . ;' ,t :11s !, A right nit't set ' ,1, : ! i taken olli, e ;:, . . , m Oliver llarrln.an. Og-i,-,, l.'. i.l. M ij r Hughes, t i ,. p..,.,s .... ,,. j other bankers, playwrights an! corporation headsvr-t ' I ,,. i :,.eij,- !',.;, '' t hex- lire beillg t'liiie.l. I.'.." tiiev -1,, .re ti f singly or en m i-s,- M y , nlu as mean a gun as auyh.lv , ev.-r grew up in the si.eriff b.i.ii., ... . st, hes'. r county got tired of l.ai:,g so many gun men take a little run . ut into the sub lirbs of an evening when Mro.idwav grew monotonous, and is preparing i'vlf ac cordingly. Another force has turned against short skirts. After haiing her costume con demned from the pulpit and on tl ar- tonnists easel, poor Woman is now- facing an attack from the nie.hc.il .-nth ri'ies of the city. Flu, pneumonia, and sniffles are all being laid at tin- hem ,.f lu r chic short skirts, and so far as The New York health department is t-. tuerie.!, it is in vain that she po'in's t pas' epidemic 'hark in the days ,. n 1 ,-r -kir's du'ttr ed all around her to.-s. i,r ,,,,iv s.-p -i faction is that he w en t pa anv attrn t ion to an v of t tiem. Rett " has been rew ritten in order eive the mi lien, e a ''satisfactory'' i iiig. Ity which it moans put what late very human Theodore KooseV meant when he insisted that lie didn't want to rend any novel in which UK didn't marry II Kit in the ending. The original ending of the play was known as ' 'artistic." It left Lulu liett free to .h as she pleased, marry the man or go go forth without him. That might be satisfactory to Lulu luit not to the ticket buyers. Marry him she must or they re fused to consider a happy rounding up, regardless of what the heroine might her self have preferred. S,. marry him she does in the rewritten a.-t. Three deep the crowd s around the plate glass windows of a trust company on Forty second street tl t her night. I'ass,,rshy" lumped to the com lusi-ui that i! was :i net n. r robbery and stopped to learu haw many were killed. Finding on! diflerently. they st.-ie. on to wonder and i... horrific. 1 -..r , n ious. I aside those windows', stood main men merrily iiiatling amh. r colored liipiid. The crowd decided that the bank directors had ''I b,-g;n the year right by serving nil their private sto. k to lino's hi st ens', , mors. And then the party broke op no 1 th.y learned that it was only a r' ' i ' an I '! amber liquid was only 'il'' ' ' I ' '' - al Ihoiv much bet ter it looks when y.,,, don't know what it is," " "'t' -' ' tiers. .- ii : t ae ,-r.). I!,. i .:W.:y. N '. ' . s ;.. s .-t f t hing ' a! in .k- I. lis Island a tragic place -;.gari!.s, ,f ,;,t one thinks about im migration Laws: lleiiietreis Kohes, an ' : I. II ' r. eh, IV ;, (,. here h fsj ill 1 1 0, " L'"o ! tr.e , :. f .1 ,y ! m a isit back a Al'-an,.;. Mat he was !i ail alien - I ' ' I Ii..' pass th. II'. racy test. -" " "Hi i.i s 1 ',, r, ''us,- hoi, adtnit- ' f ' ' ' o at r . I e ' a gic seem '' -' ''"i.' 'iitoat i' 1 - t 1 1 - t:i .s was twice ""'iieb'd in Kiaii. e wh.le riiii(; as a forp .'ill in the A. II. (I. 1 " us in a I'iftii a , eti'.e biaiity shop " tier day. when a:i ai.u,s enstomer ame in to iisk when there would ie a s:ipp:y rince mure of some special ungeunt s'.e nis.. It d tt keep her young anil fair, ''.lust as soon as we can get the earls from I'urope," the attendant assured her. "We're nil out of the earls we need for that and we have to get them in Fnrnpe. " Well, of course I knew one couldn't find native earls in our democ racy, but I was aghast at the thought of what art they could play in the beauty cream. It s l.led like a refined caiina- biilism. T had to speak up. " Fh. hm, I begun. "Did you say you got earls f' mi Fnrope for your creams?" "Yes." said proudly. "weimport till our '''': to:ve ear'. e...-.c earl, ad of f iios It sin ; it f N. Y.t'ke One more v'ut..ry for tr The entire thi-d :: ! of Ms. !. m:w York. .);,,-,. M -,v Oeclielrnann, 1- .... ! n.cni, n.al trolley take iiteraiUy another public official spewhOtchelmajin was arrested the otbe'fday for taking one of the trolley cars out on a little ride of his own toward I'ort Richmond. He explained that he had been doing it for a long while, as he liked to take breakfast at a l'ort Richmond restaurant and the trollev car offered an easy way of get ting there. He cited as his defense Mayor ILlaii 's speech ut the opening of the car line m which the Mayor said, emphatically and clearly, "The cars be long to the people. He furnished $1.1100 bail in the polite court and went home to meditate on the unreliability of oratory. ' In these days every young woman should have an escort, bo I shall now escort you home.'' The wor.ls are those of a courtly stranger who stopped Miss Jennie Max on the street the other eve ning and took away her valuable ring. He earned a gun but he was very gentle about using it, ami had the matter of business all attendisl to before he stated his courtesy in the matter of seeing her safely home. He wished her a cordial goodnight whin they reached her door and disappeared into the darkness. Now that American tenuis has shown its ipiality on the other side of the earth a New York girl has departed to prove how few teirors have strange waters for America's swimmers. Miss Kthelda Mleibtrev, peerless mermaid of the New 1 orK women s -swimming Association, is due to arrive shortly in the Antipodes for an international swimming test Miss Mleibtrev defeated Miss Fannie lliirack. Australian woman champion when thev measured strokes in this country two ears ago and New York is confident she will be equally successful in Australian waters. mond has been languishing in the office of the Customs Appraiser. According to American standards it was toobig to be beautiful and too expensive to be desir able. 80 it has started on its way to Cuba, once more personally conducted by Mr. Wittram, where it is hoped that some jewel loving seuorita will appre ciate it. With a four years' war record and the scars of a wound or two, Anna K. j Woodman, not yet twenty years old, has . come to -New York from London for a six months' "rest." She carries the title of lieutenant and the record of be- I ing the youngest woman otlicer in the English army, having enlisted in the Woman's Auxiliary Corps when she was fourteen with the aid of her elder sis ter's clothes ami her own declaration that she was 1 M. Miss Woodman has (Continued on page M.) It is sometimes difficult to give a truly personal touch to all of one's circular letters in spite of the greatert care. A letter from a well known woman's mail order shop arrived the other day at a Columbia Fni versify fraternity house. If said: 'Sigma Alpha Fpsilon, "My dear Miss Fpsilon : ' ' The largest diamond ever sent to this oiintry, .and nobody wanted it! It's a .ad story for a diamond that had so much to boast of both as to size and nstorv. It arrived in New York two months ago, weighing !-.".." carats, and iiis' straight from the Sunday fez of Muiilaf Ah, I Kl Rafid, the deposed Sul tan of Morocco. It was entrusted by him to Frederick Wittram, manager of an American bank in Madrid, Spain, for sale in this country. Mecause the insur ance rates on the great stone were pro hibitive, Mr. Wittram dropped it into his pockett ami brought it over. For the two months since his arrival, the dia- HOW DOCTORS TREAT COLDS AND THE FLU First Step in Treatment Is a Erisk Purgative With Calotaba, the Purifled andEeflned Calomel TablctB that are Nausea less, Efa ad Sure. Doctors hive found by experience that 110 meUii ino for oo' Is nnd inilu eni'.a C".n bo U-pendcd u,-..it for full ef iVc.ivouoss untii tho liver is m. '" th ,r o"aly active. That is v.hy tho first 8tcpin the treatment is the new, nausea lots calomel t.".b!cts called CalotaLs, which aro free from tlie sickening; and weakening effects of the old stylo calo mel. Doctors also point Out tho fact that nn active liver in ty go a long- way towards prevent ir.g ir. linen :-a and is ono of the most important factors in en abling the patient to successfully with r.trtnd an attack and ward off pneu li'.enia. One 0- lotab rn tho tonfruo at bei ti-:io wi;li a swallow of water that 'I .ill. 'o salts, no nausea nor the slight est jnlorfereuco with your eating;, pleai ire or work. Next morning; your cold lias vanished, your liver is acti' t?, your system is purified, and yon are feeling fine, with a hearty appetite for break fast. Dni""istst pell Cilotabs only in oricrinnl soa'.'d p.icknijes, price thirtv- tie cents. Vni" it' inev will lie cheer llv refunded if y.m do not find them I, lii'htful. (Adv.') Mr. Auto Owner: We will pull you out of the snow this win ter with a real Winter Gasoline. It will take you thru the mud on high in the coldest weather, without your carbure ter popping or your engine knocking from carbon, and will always give a quick re sponse to the throttle. For you will be using a real winter gaso line made specially for us by one of the best gasoline makers in the country. We will gladly show you our orders and specifica tions for it. This isn't just a "high gravity gas," but is scientifically constructed in an up-to-date refinery, so as to give quick starting and steady power. All of it goes thru your car buretor as real vapor. The cost is no more than ordinary gas. Drive up to our station and get real enjoy ment out of your winter driving. Piedmont Oil Company SEVEN TO EIGHT CENTS A DAY will insure your car aKaiiiHt Fire and theft. Drop me a card and lets talk it over. Will appreciate your husiiiess. My service is yours. R. V. WILLIAMS, The Automobile Insurance Man Fone 410 Prices Reduced 25 per cent 9W rove's is the Genuine and Only Laxative Bromo tablets The first and original Cold ind Cirip tahlet, the merit of wn.rh is recognized by all civilized nations. Be careful to avoid Imitations. Be sure its Bromo on Willard Storage Batteries o Tlie Henuiiu ic .. .. thio natu. . There has been no reduction in quality. Remember the WIL LARD is the only battery having threaded rubber insulation. Come to see us. You have the largest stock of new and service batteries in the city to choose from. Gastonia Storage Battery Company 210 N. Long St. Phone 538 I A I ft , i, c,'. Thai WJSl ore a A C rt. VTTT 1 I 1 r r , t ; 1 i 1 Inspector ,f the Staten line, will never GO TO 8WEETLAND FOR CANDY, whose delicate deliciousness cannot be duplicated. CANDY, that will always taste "morish." CANDY, of supreme quality and goodness. FRUITS, direct from the grower to you. Remember they are FRESH. DRINKS, from a sanitary fountain and for your health's sake the purest is none too pure.
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