The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-06
Watches, Diamonds,
Money and Jewelry
GIVEN AWAY WITH
CANS OF TEA AND COFFEE.

The Merchants Tea Company. of New
York, have opened Il 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 !
pounds. and is sold, can and contents, al
the uniform price of $l.Oo to one and
all
The tea itself is of IN excellent quality
and well worth the money.
the coffee is put up in paper cans.
each can weighing including contents,
about pounds, and is sold, can and con
tents, al 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 IA
dollar of anybody'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 din
mond jewclry. No blanks. The tea
and coffee being worth al 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 cofrecs will bo 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 large and rapidly
growing trade. as the superior qnallty OF
these goods become known.
Order by Llnil promptly forwarded to
all points OF the United States
Address MERCHANTS TEA co,
Corner 4lh and Brady sts., Forests
block, DAvenpor, Iowa. Price $1.OO per
can; 6 cans for So 90; 13 cans for $40;
81 cans for 500,
The following is partial list of fortu
nate purchasers who found valuable
souvenirs in their cans of tea and col-
fee:
Miss Addic Teelc, SOG Perry street,
genuine d!mond ring; Mrs. $. s. Stack
house, Eight and Lel'agc streets, genus
inc diamond collar button; Gusia Gran
andcl, Fifth and Iowa streets, steam
winding and setting watch; Mrs Noble,
110 west Fifth street, peuuine diamond
ring; Miss Minnie BuIraclough, Hinrichs
china store, ladies chatelaine watch; John
Seims undertaken, $40 west Third street,
anu """rh' 4'A 49,
Minnie Mills; hcah waiter Ackley house,
ladies' chateline watch; j G. Rasmussen,
photographer Rock Island, genuine dia~
mond stud; Geo. Krabbcnfoeit, cigar box
maker, 43O west Third street; Mrs Oakes.
Eight and Iowa streets, lady's chaiclaine
watch, Miss Edith Penleton, 5O6 LeClaire
street, genuine diamond ring; S. +. Criiz,
Atlantic house, stem winding watch;
Moses Hobbs, G. r. |. & p. II. r., stem
winding and setting watch; Geo. Z
Jones, photographer, $50 Brady street,
genuine diamond stud; Mrs Bronnell
Kent and Locust streets, stem winding
and setting watch; ii. b. Hartford, gem
eral agent Moline Wagon Co., genuine
diamond stud; Mrs Lease, Brady street,
lady's chatelainc watch; Albert Nuckols,
city hill poster, s+em winding and setting
watch Belle Robertson, Eigh leenth and
Brady, genuine diamond ring; a. X,
Mann, telegraph manager, stem winding
and setting watch; A. X. SnsafeIt, tele
graph operator, stem winding and setting
watch; Miss Julia Dillon. Davis restaur.
ant, uenline diamond ring; Miss Aman
der, 13t Davis street, genuine diamond
ring; Mrs Levitt. Fourth and Brady
streets. genuine diamond ring; Mrs j
NJ Ltn2, Fourth and Brady streets lady's
rhatelaine watch j. X. Buck. Federal
street, stem winding and sitting watch