| Show DRUGGISTS VICKS SHORTAGE OVERCOME AT last tle deal scheduled for last november which was postponed on account of the influenza epidemic Is now rein re in stated good during the month of march OVER ONE MILLION JARS OF PRODUCED EACH WEEK it 13 with pride that we announce to the drug trade that the shortage of vicks Vapo Rub which haa lasted since last october Is now overcome since january ast 1st we hae been running our laboratory twenty three and a halt hours out of every twenty four last week we shipped the last of our back orders and retail druggists therefore are no longer requested to order in small quantities only NOVEMBER DEAL reinstated this deal which we bad expected to put on last november and had to be postponed on account of the shortage of Vapo Rub Is instated reinstated re for the month of starch this allows a discount of 10 on shipments from jobbers stock of quantities of from 1 to 4 gross 5 of this discount Is allowed by the jobber and 5 by us e advise the retail druggists to place their orders immediately so that the jobbers will be able to get prompt shipments to them THANKS OF THE PUBLIC DUE THE jarug TRADE DURING THE INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC the thanks of the american public are certainly due the entire drug trade retail wholesale and manufacturing for what they accomplished during the recent influenza epidemic the war caused a shortage of physicians nurses were almost impossible to obtain the demand on the drug trade was unexpected and overwhelming and to this demand they responded nobly retail druggists kept open day and night and slept where they dropped behind the prescription counter wholesale druggists called their salesmen off the road to help fill orders wired us to ship vicks vapo rub by the quickest route regardless of expense A tremendous INCREASE OUR production in this emergency we tried to do pur part we scoured the country for raw materials our traffic manager spent his days riding freight cars igwe shipped raw materials in carload lots by express and pleaded alth manufacturers to increase their deliveries to us but it was a stow process some of our raw materials are produced only in japan supplies in this country were low and shipments required three months to acme from the far fast then we had to recruit and train skilled labor we brought our salesmen into the factory and trained them as foremen we invented new machinery and managed to install it on christmas day so as not to interfere with our dally production JARS OF EVERY MINUTE DAY AND NIGHT by january ast 1st we had everything ready to put on our night shift and since then ur laboratory has been running day and night to feed our automatic machines which drop out one hundred and forty three jars of a minute or one million and eighty thousand keelly has required a force of people our cafe department part ment created tw the benefit of these workers served meals during the month of january alone 13 MILLION JARS OF distributed SINCE OCTOBER an idea of the work we have accomplished complis hed this fall may be given by our production figures jars of manufactured and distributed since last october one jar tor every two families in the entire united states during the influenza epidemic vicks was used as an external application in connection with the physicians treatment and thousand sot people unable to obtain a doctor relied on acks almost exclusively literally millions of families all over the country from california to maine and from the great alalea to the gulf have found the ideal home remedy for croup and cold troubles |
