The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1867-11-28
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Protective Union
MERCANTILE
REFERENCE IS
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THE MERCHANTS PROTECTIVE UNION, organized
to promote and protect trndc, by enabling it's
subscribers to attain facility and safety in tho
granting Of credits, and the recovery Of claims
oil points, have to announce that they will, on
or about September 3d. 1868, publish in ONE large
quarto volume: t h .
THE MERCHANTS Protective UsioN, organized
to promote and protect trade, by enabling it's sub.
scribcrs to attain facility and safety in the granting
Of credits, and tho recovery of claims at a points,
have to announce That they will, in September,
1868, publish in one largo qdnrto volume; ..S +
THE MERCHANTS PnorEcTIyE UNION MERcASTILE
hEEfEnENcE REGISTER, containing, among other
things, tho NAMgs, NATURE oP BUSINESS, AMOUNT
OF CAPITAL, FINANCIAL STANDING. AND RATING As TO
CREDIT Of over 100000 Of the principal merchants,
traders bankers, manufacturers, aud public
companies, in moro than 10000 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 ntainnble and necessary to enable
the merchant to ascertain at glance The CAPITAL,
CHAuACTER, and DEGREE OF CREDIT of such Of his
customers as arc deemed worthy Of any gradation
of credit, comprising, also, Neirspaper DIRECTORY,
containing the title character, price, and place of
publication with full particulars relative to each
journal being complete guide to 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
ms the same will be based. so far as practicable
upon the written statements Of the parties them.
selves, revised and corrected by wcll-known and
relinblc legal correspondents whose character will
provo guarantee Of tho correctness Of the infor-
nation furnished by them, il is believed that the
reports will prove more truthful and complete md
therefore, superior to, and Of muclf greater value
than any previously issued s.-ae! i.
BY aid of the MRncANTILE RErEnRscE REoIsrEn.
business men will been enabled to ascertain, at n
glance the capital and gradation of credit, ms
compared with financial worth, of nearly every
merchant, manufacturer, trndcr, and banker within
the abovc-namcd territorial limits
On or about tho first each month, subscribers
will also receive the Monthly Chronicle containing
among other things, record of such important
changes in the and condition of firms.
throughout the country, may occur subsequent
to the publication ofench haf-yearly volume Of the
MERCANTILE REFERENCE REGISTER:
Price Of The Merchants Union Mercantile Reference
Register. fhy dollars $780, for ohc6 1t pM be for
'rnrded 10 arg address IN Me United STATES hansporta-
tion paid.
Holders Of fee $40 shares ofth- ro,.:,c, Stock. in
addition TO participating in The proGts, erecere one
copy Of the MERoASriLE REFERENoE RgoIsrEn free
Of charge; holders often shares mW be etiled to Two
copies and no than ten shares of the Copitol
stock wW be allotted 10 any one applicant.
al rcnnnces, orders Or communications reiafire 10
the book should be addressed tokhe Merchants ofec-
tire Union, in the american Erchange hank Bmilipg
No. l"s Broadeay, Bor, 25'iG.) New- Iork.
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