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(CIRCULAR.) 
Consumers Importing Tea Co.,) 
No. 8 Church Street. f 
P. O. Box 5,509. New York City. ) 
This is a combination of capitalists to supply the 
consumers of Teas throughout the United States on 
the mutual principle. 
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for our trade. 
We expect every consumer of Teas 'o render us all 
the assistance they can in carrying out our enter¬ 
prise, as we make a specialty c< SUPPLYING CON¬ 
SUMERS ONLY (and allow no middlemen to make 
any profit on our Importations), wnich will enable 
us to supply them with Tens at prices lower than 
ha^e ever heen known, and of those fine qualities 
thi t seldom reach the interior, being sold only to 
the large cities and among the very wialthv. 
Hoping the consumer will take nil Interest In our 
enterprise, and seud at once for a circular with full 
explanations of how to proceed to obtain our goods, 
we remain. Most respectfully yotirs. 
Consumers Importing Tea Co., 
No. S Church St., 
P. O. Box 5.509. New Vorlt City. 
Entered, according to Act of Congress, In January, 
1874, by the Consumers Importing lea to., m we 
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