The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-18
Watches, Diamonds,
Money and Jewelry !
GIVEN AWAY WITH
CANS OF TEA AND COFFEE.

| The Merchants Tea Company of New
York, have opened branch in Daven'
port, at the corner of 4th and Brady
Forests block.
| Their teas are put up in paper cans,
each can weighing, including contents l J
| pounds, and is sold, can and contents, at
the uniform price of $1.00 to one and
all.
and well worth the money.
| The coffee is put up in paper cans,
each can weighing, including contents,
| about 3pounds, and is sold, can and con
tents, at the same price as the tea, viz:
81 90 per can.
The coffee is hard to beat, gives salts
faction wherever used, and is worth a
dollar of anyboay's money.
Every can contains a souvenir of from
ten cents to $50 in cash, or gold or sill
yer watches or jewelry, also genuine dia.
mond jcwefry No blanks. The tea
and coffee being worth at fair retail
price more than asked without any re
gard to the souvenirs. This company
takes this method to advertise their
goods, and after thirty days these teas
and cofTees will be sold wholly on their
merits, by their agents at the same price,
but without the souvenirs. This com
pany has appointed over fifty agents in
various cities, none of which are now
giving souvenirs, the time having expired,
yet each agent has Il large and rapidly
growing trade, as the superior quality of
these goods become known.
Orders by mail promptly forwarded to
all points of the United States.
Address MERCHANTS TEA CO.,
Corner 4th and Brady SITS, Forests
block, Davenport Iowa. Price SO per
can 6 cans for IS 90; 13 cans for SO;
81 cans for $50
The following is partial list of for,u
nate purchasers who found valuable
souvenirs in their cans of tea and cof-
fee:
Mr.. W. II. Nagel, farmer, Harrison
street road, ady's solid gold WATCH Miss
Corny Casleign, Mississippi avenue, gen
uine diamond collar button; Mr.. Herman
Zeelin, Brown street, $40 in currency;
Mrs Ed Lambert, Harrison street, gem
uine diamond ring; Miss Lizzie Blair, cor
ner of Ninth and Brady streets, genuine
diamond ring; Mr.. John Comston, works
in saw mill, $50 in gold; Miss Laura Rel.
~, isCi dHt tili, GtHAlHt 'lidiIloHi pm,
Ii. perno. confectionery store. 3OS Brady
street, solid gold ring; Mr.. George Con
ner Wilton, Iowa, stem winding and stem
setting silver watch.
Miss Katie Bauer, corner of Sixth and
Warren. solid gold rug; Miss Martha
Slater, Grants addition. genuine diamond
ring; Mrs. } +. Neber9all, BIue Grass,
genuine diamond ring; Miss Maggie Mel
son, corner of East Ninth and Sylcan
streets, genuine diamond collar button;
Henry ktcblcr, gardner. Division street,
$40 in cash; Mrs. Robinson. Rock Island,
solid gold ring; Mrs. Ii, b, Hartford, 4OS
East Fourteenth street, genuine diamond
ring, }. b Townsend, Jersey Ridge, stem
winding aud sten. sctuug watch; Mrs,
LOUIS Cornelius Moline, ladies solid gold
hunting case watch; l.. w. Clemons.
justice of the peace, Pleasant Valley gen>
uine diamond ring and also stem winding
and stem setting watch, Mrs. d. Koll,
corner of Second and Perry streets gem
uine diamond collar button; Mrs. John
Conncli, Eastern avenne. $15 currency;
Mrs. r. r, Martin, wife of U. s. signal
service officer, East Sixth street, genuine
diamond ring; Mrs. Gilman, Moline. gem
uine diamond ring.