Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1918 — DRUGGISTS! PLEASE NOTE VICK'S VAPORUB OVERSOLD DUE TO PRESENT EPIDEMIC [ARTICLE]

DRUGGISTS! PLEASE NOTE VICK'S VAPORUB OVERSOLD DUE TO PRESENT EPIDEMIC

Tremendous Demand Last Few Days Has Wiped Out Excess Stocks That We Had Estimated Would Last Until Next January. Last week’s Orders Called For One and Three Quarter Million Jars —To-day’s Orders Alone Amount to 932,459 Jars.

Big Shipments Arp En Route to: Jobbers. Until These xArrrve There May Be a Temporary Shortage. All Deals Postponed —Buy in Small Lots Only. BETAILERS CAN GET IMMEDIATE SHIPMENTS DIRECT BY PARCEL POST. This advertisement is written on Monday, October 21st. It is directed to the attention of all distributors of Vick’s Vapoßub, both wholesale and retail. In an emergency such as the present epidemic—our duty—and your duty—is to distribute Vaporßub in the quickest possible manner to those sections stricken by influenza. We, therefore, call your careful attention to the following: Danger Of Shortage If Supply Is Not Conserved On October Ist we had on hand at our factory and in twenty warehouses scattered over the country, sufficient Vapoßub to List us, we thought, until January Ist, allowing for a 50 per cent increase over last year’s sales, and not counting our daily output. This big excess stock had been accumulated curing the summer months. Then this epidmic of Spanish Influenza 'hit us —and in the last ten days this stock has vanished. At first we thought this tremendous demand would last only a few days, but the oruers have run: Wed., Oct. 16 —18,504 doz. Thur., Oct. 17 —25,323 doz. Fri Oct. 18 —39,256 doz. Sat.’ Oct. 19 —4 5,833 doz. Mon., Oct. 21 —77,705 doz. Up to Saturday, October 19th, •we have actually shipped for this month $400,284.10, or over two million jars of Vapoßub. The Problem Now Is To Distri- * bute Vaporßub Quickly Most of this tremendous quantity is still en route to the jobbers, but freight and express are both congested nowadays, and it may be some time—before this

Post or express, and ;ay the charges ourselves. 3 d—ln order to make distribution still quicker, we will ship direct to your retail customers q-antit_es not more than three (3> dozen 30c. size at any one shipment, 4th —We are now out of the 60c. size Ind will be for the next ■ 10 days. What We Ask the Retail Druggist To Do Buy in as small quantities as possible. If you hare any quantity orders, given the jobber's salesmen or given to our salesmen, don't bother about them—no need to write us —it is absolutely impossible to fill these orders at this time. If the jobbers in your territory are out of Vick’s Vapoßub, we will ship you by Parcel Post, prepaid, quantities not more than three (3) dozen 3de. size in any one order. Naturally, we can’t open accounts at this time, so your check or money order for this amount must accompany order. Don't write us stating to ship thru your jobber, as we then have to wait until we write this jobber had get his O. K. If you wish the goods to come thru yonr jobber, have him order them for you. Snowed Under With Correspondence Our force has already been “shot to pieces”—twenty-four of our men are wearing Uncle Sam's khaki — and this recent rush has simply buried us. All our sales force has been called in to help in the office and factory. We just mention -thia so you won’t hold it against us if your wires and letters aren't answered promptly. -■ Special Booklets On Spanish Influenza We will send, on request, to any retail druggist, 14»<« or more little booklets, just issued, on Spanish Influenza, giving the latest information about this disease —its history—the symptoms—the treatment, and particularly the use of Vick's Vapoßub as an external application to supplement the physician’s treatment.

supply reaches the jobbers.. In the meantime, therefore, it is necessary that we distribute, as j "widely as possible the stock that we are manufacturing daily, to-j gether with that now on the job-1 bers and retailers shelves, in order that it may get to the Influenza districts quickly. Our normal output is about 4,000 dozen per day. We are putting on a night shift, but it will be a little whiie before that is pro- — ducing. \What We Ask the Wholesale Druggist To Do Last Saturday we notified all of our jobbers, by Special Delivery, as follows: fst —Deals and quantity shipments of all kinds are canceled. Fill no quantity orders of any kind, whether taken by our salesmen or by your own. Sell in small lots only, i 2d —Order from us in as small quantities as possible. If you are out we will try to ship a limited amount jby /Parcel

New Way To Use Vapoßub In addition to the . usual method ; of using Vapoßub—that is, applied over the throat ana chest and covered with hot fiannel cloths——our customers are writing us daily telling of their success in using Vapoßub in other ways, particularly as a preventive. They melt a little in a spoon and inhale the vapors arising, or melt it in a benzoin steam kettle. Where the steam kettle is not available. VapoRub can be used in an ordinary tea-kettle. Fill the tea-kettle half full of boiling water, put in half a teaspoon of Vapoßub from time to time —keep the kettle just slow-! ly boiling and inhale the steam arising. According to a Bulletin just issued by the Publie Health Service, Dr. Stiles recommends that the nose and throat be kept coated with i some oily substance. For this purpose Vapoßub is excellent—just time to time and snuff well back 1 into the air passages.

THE VICK CHEMICAL CO MP ANT, GREENSBORO, N. C.