Show 1 DRUGGISTS VICKS VICK'S V 1 SnORT SHORTAGE OVERCOME AT LAST Tile Tie Deal Scheduled for Last November Which Was Postponed Postponed Postponed Post- Post on Account of the Influenza Influenza enza Epidemic Is Now Reinstated Reinstated Re Rein stated Good During the Month of March OVER ONE MILLION JARS OF PRODUCED EACH WJ WEEK EK EKIt It Is with pride that we announce to the drug trade that the shortage of Vicks Vick's which has lasted since last October Is now overcome Since January 1st we have been running our labora laboratory ory twenty-three twenty and a half hours Dours out of every twenty Last we week k we shipped the last of our back backorders backorders backorders orders and retail druggists th therefore are no longer requested to order In small quantities only NOVEMBER DEAL REINSTATED INSTATED This deal which we had expected to put on last November and which had to tobe tobe tobe be postponed on account of the shortage shortage shortage short short- age pf is re-instated re for the month of March This allows a discount discount discount dis dis- count of 10 on shipments from Jobbers Jobbers' jobbers jobbers' jobbers jobbers' Job job- bers' bers stock of quantities of from I 1 to 4 gross 5 of this discount Is allowed by the jobber and 5 by us We advise the retail druggists to place their orders Immediately so that the Jobbers will wUl be able to get prompt shipments to them THANKS OF THE PUBLIC DUE THE DRUG TRADE DURING THE INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC The thanks of the American public are certainly due the entire drug trade retail retail wholesale and manufacturing for for what they accomplished during f the recent influenza enza epidemic The war var caused a shortage of physicians physicians- nur nurses s were almost Impossible to obtain ob ob- ob- ob tain the thin the demand on the drug trade was Vas unexpected unexpected and overwhelming and to this demand they responded nobly Retail druggists kept open day and night and slept where th they y dropped dropped dropped drop drop- ped behind the counter Wholesale druggists called salesmen salesmen salesmen sales sales- men off th the road to help fill orders orders- hundreds wired us to ship Vicks Vick's Vapo Vapo- Rub by the quickest route regardless of expense A TREMENDOUS JOB TO INCREASE OUR PRODUCTION In this emergency we tried tb do our part We Ve scoured the country for raw materials our materials our Traffic Manager spent his days riding freight cars In we in-we we r 4 shipped raw materials In carload lots 2 by express and pleaded with manufacturers i r to Increase their deliveries to us But It was a slow process Some of ot our raw materials are produced only ti i. t In Japan supplies Japan supplies In this country were low and shipments required three s months to come from the Far East i Then we had to recruit and train r skilled labor We brought our salesmen sales sales- salesmen men Into the factory and trained them themas i as foremen We invented new ma ma- chinery and managed manage to install It on Christmas Day so as not to Interfere f 1 with our dally daily production JARS OF EVERY MINUTE DAY AND NIGHT By January 1st we had everything ready to put on our night shift shirt and Y since then our cur laboratory has been running da day dap and night To feed our automatic machines which drop altone out nut one hundred and three forty-three jars jafs II f a minute or one million in ml arl 1 eighty thousand weekly has required r a force of people Our Cafe Department Department Department De- De created for the benefit ben of these workers served meals due dur du during ing lag the month of January alone 13 MILLION JARS OF DISTRIBUTED SINCE OCTOBER An Idea of the work work we wi have accomplished accomplished ac aeo- this fall faU may be given by our production figures figures Jars of ot manufactured and distributed since last October one October one Jar fo for every two families In the entire United States During tile tIie influenza epidemic Vicks Vick's r was used as an external application ap op- ape In connection with th th physicians physician's physicians physician's cian's clans treatment and thousand people people peo pee pie unable to obtain a a. doctor relied on Vicks Vick's al almost ost exclusively Literally millions of families all over ti tithe the country from California California Cali Call fornia to Maine 1 dad and and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf have found VIcks VIck's the ideal home remedy for croup and cold troubles troubles trou trou- bles s. s purr ih t r r |