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Now that spring has come after a long and hard winter, the careful house-keeper must prepare to cleanse and beautify the house. New wall-paper, ornamental and attractive to the eye, new curtains for the windows, new carpets for the floor, new china, crockery and glass ware for the table, are in great demand; and we can assure our readers that nowhere in the state can all these goods be found in greater variety or at more reasonable prices than at the Store of Augustine R. Ayers, 91 North Main Street, Concord, New Hampshire.

It has been the motto of his successful business career to keep up with the times and allow no one to undersell him. In his store you can have the advantage of his excellent judgment and fine taste, and have as great a variety to choose from as in the establishments of Boston, New York, or Philadelphia.

One line of trade he has made special preparations to meet this season, and that is the furnishing of the great hotels and summer resorts among the mountains and about the lakes of New Hampshire. His experience would be of the greatest advantage to any purchaser.

The basement of his store is used for crockery, samples of which are displayed on the main floor, in all lines of staple and hotel ware, both in white and decorated goods. The display in the large front windows of the store is attractive and pleasing, The front of the store is devoted to silver plated ware, table cutlery, china, glass and crockery. In the rear are wall-papers, curtains, and oilcloths, where will be found all the latest styles and novelties in wall paper, and oilcloths from 1 yard to 5 yards wide. The floor above is devoted to the display of carpets, where will be found the largest stock north of Boston of body Brussels, velvet tapestries, tapestry Brussels, Lowell extra-super ingrains, medium ingrains, hemps, straw mattings and druggets.

He has in stock new imported Japanese ware, majolica, French china and glass, plated ware, lamps, burners, lanterns, teapots, bisc, opaque felt shading, Holland and oil opaque shades, toilet sets, crockery ware, hanging lamps, vases, urns, cuspidores, straw matting, hemps, oilcloths in many widths, linoleum, door-mats, hassocks, rugs, feather dusters, flowerpots, crockery and china, dinner, breakfast and tea sets, velvet and flock papers, embossed paper, and borders.