The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-16
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 arc put up in paper cans,
each can weighing, including contents l !
| pounds, and is sold, can and contents, at
the uniform price of $100 to one and
all.
The tea itself is of an excellent quality
and well worth the money.
The coffee is put up in paper cans,
each can weighing, including contents,
about 3 pounds and is sold, Can and con-
tents. at the same price as the tea, viz
Sl 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 souvenir of from
ten cents TO $50 in cash, or gold or sill :
yer watches or jcwelry, also genuine dia-
mond jewclry. No blanks. The tea
and coffee being worth at fair retail
price more thyA4 asked without any re-
gard to the ivenirs. This company
takes this " .hod to advertise their
goods, and/ er thirty days these teas
and coffees 4 be sold wholly on their
merits, by ir agents at tho same price,
but wiLho, . souvenirs. This COM
pany has az ed over fifty agents in
various cli, zone of which are now
giving souve rs, the time having expired,
yet each agent has 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 s
block Davenport Iowa. Price 81 90 per
can; 6 cans for 50 90; Is cans for $40;
- cans for $50
The following is partial list of fortu
hale purchasers who found valuable
souvenirs in their cans of tea and cof-
fee:
E. c. Townsend, 1889 Iowa street.
genuine diamond stud; Dr. r. o. Rogers.
Pleasant Valley, ladies' solid gold Ii. G.
watch; ii. Cheney. farmer of Pleasant
Valley, stem winding and stem setting
watch; Miss Jessie Walcolt, 40S East
Fifteenth street, genuine diamond ring ;
james Wallsten, laborcr on Marquette
street. $50 in currency; Mrs. Jones, Rock
Island, genuine diamond collar button !;
Mr.. Jerome butcher, T. NJ. Linwood,
Iowa, stem winding and stem setting
watch; Mr.. Henry Consture, tinker, Col
lege avenue. SEQ in gold; w. II. Blair.
corner Ninth and Brady streets, stem
winding and stem setting watch; Margaret
orr rke, washerwoman, $15 in silver;
Mrs. A. J. Allen, wife of editor of Scott
County Bldde, Buffalo, Iowa, genuine
diamond ring; James Ale Wamsicr, 416
Front street, stem winding and stem set
ting watch Mr.. II. Martens, night cap
tain of police. ladies' chatalain watch,
John Kahl (blacksmith) Third and War
ren, genuine diamond ring; Moses Hobbs.
foreman of round house, c., r. /. & p.
stem winding and stem setting watch; !;
Gustave Miller, Myrtle street, $40
in silv Henry Trapschuh, black
smith, Suine diamond stud; John
Christia of Moline. ILL.,, carpen-
ter. gen solid gold II. G. watch;
John Can brakeman, c.. r. /. 4 p
r. r., genuine diamond, ruby and sap
phire ring; George G. Bowser, deckhand,
$40 in gold; Bridget O'Connor servant
girl. genuine diamond eardrops; Thos.
Longstreet, Belle avenue, IS bill; James
Launceston, ladies' solid gold II. c.
Watch; John Petersen, farmer, Rocking
ham, stem winding and stem setting
watch