The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1867-11-28
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Protective Union
MERCANTILE
REFERENCE I,
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The MERCHANTS PROTECTIVE UNION, organized
to promote and protect trade, by enabling it's
subscribers to attain facility and safety in the
granting Of credits, and the recovery o. claims at
oil points, have to announce that they will, on
or about September 30, 1868, publish in ONE large
quarto volume: 46t .s
THE MERCHANTS Protective UKioN, organized
to promote and protect trade, by enabling its sub.
scribers to attain facility and safety in the granting
OF credits, and tho recovery of claims at all points,
have to announce thnt they will, in September,
1868, publish in one largo quarto volume; - &
THE MERCHANTS PRorEcTIvE UNION MEncASrILE
KEEFRRENcE REGISTER, containing, among, other
things, the NAMES, NATURE oP BUSINESS, AMOUNT
OF CAPITAL, FINANCIAL STANDING. AND RATING AS 70
CREDIT, Of over 100000 Of the principal merchants,
traders, bankers, manufacturers aud public
companies, in moro than 1000 of the Cities towns
villages, and settlements throughout the United
States, their territories, and tho British Provinces
OF North America; and embracing the most impor-
tant information atainable and necessary to enable
the merchant to ascertain at glance the CAPITAL,
CHARACTER, and DEGREE OF CREDIT Of such of his
customers rs arc deemed worthy Of any gradation
OF credit, comprising, also, Nerspaper Directory,
containing the title, character. price, and place Of
publication with full particulars relative TO each
journal, being complete guide the press of every
county in the United States.
The reports and information will be confined TO
those deemed worthy Of some line Of credit and
as the same will be based. so fur as practicable
upon the written statements of the parties them.
selves, revised and corrected by well-known and
reliable legal correspondents, whose character will
prove guarantee of the correctness of the infor-
nation furnished by them, it s believed that the
reports will prove more truthful and complete and.
therefore, superior TO- and of mucNf greater value,
than any previously issued -.ftj i
by aid Of the MERCANTILE REFERENCE REGISTER
business men will been enabled to ascertain, at a
glance, the capital and gradation of credit MS
compared with financial worth, Of nearly every
merchant, manufacturer trader, and banker, within
the abovc-named territorial limits.
On or about the first each month, subscribers
will also receive the Monthly Chronicle containing
among other things, record of such important
changes in the name and condition of firms,
throughout the country may occur subsequent
to the publication Of each half-ycary volume of the
MERCANTILE REFERENCE REGISTER:
Price of The Merchants Union Mercantile Reference
Register. fhy dollars. $3.50 for 'Ohic1 W be for
,rnrded 10 nny oddress lie Gmfed States transporfa-
hon paid.
Holders of fire $40 .hart. ofth> ra.ic, .Stoch. in
addition TO participating in Me proGts, rr reeere one
copy OF the MERCANTILE REFEnENoE REGISTER free
Of charge; holders Of ten shares u be entitled to Two
copies i; and no than ten shares Of the Capital
Stock ,rW be allotted 10 any applicant.
III rtmifnmres, orders Or communications Teairc to
the cook should DC addressed ohe MercAants Irotec-
tire Union. in the .iaeriean Exchange Bank Bu7dng
No l2S Broadcoy.' Boz, 2dGt.) !ve,e- 1Iork.
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