The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-11-05
!" HE MER CH A n T S.
PRoFEOTIvE- UNION
MERCANTILE REFERENCE REGISTER.

THE MERCHANTS PROTECTIVE UNION, Crran-
! tod to promote and protect trade, by enabling
;+s subscribers to attain facility ard safety in
the granting of credits, and the recovery of
| claims at all points, have to announce that they
will. in September, 1868, publish in one large
| Quarto volume:
The MgRcHAxIs' PRoTECrIvE UNION MER-
| CAMILLE REFERSNcE REoIsrER, containing,
among other things, the Names, Nature OF
| Busness Amount of Capital, Financial Stand
| ing and Rating as to Credit, of over 400 ,hC0
! of the principal merchants, traders, bankers,
| manufacturers, and public companies, in more
! than 80 coo of the cities, towns, villages, and
! settlements throughout the United States, their
! territories and the British Provinces of North
| America and embracing the most important
I information attainable and necessary TO enable
! tic merchant to ascertain at q glance the Cap
! ital Character, and Degree of Credit of such
! of his customers as are deemed worthy of any
| grada ton of credit. comprising, also, n ENS-
/ PAPER DIRECTORY, containing the title,
character, price. and place of publication. with
full particulars relative to each journal, being
! a 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 as the same will be based, so far as prac-
ticable, upon the written statements of the
parties themselves, revised and corrected by
well known and reliable legal correspondents,
1 whose character will prove a guarantee of the
! correctness of the information furnished BY
| them, it is believed that the reports wi prove
more truthful and complete, and, therefore,
superior to, and of mt ch greater value, than
any previously issued.
By aid of the Mercantile Reference Reels
ter, business men will be enabled to ascertain
CT glance. the capital and gradation of credit.
as compared with financial worth, of nearly
every merch mt, enulacturer. trader. and
banker, within the aboYe-nGmed territorial
! limits.
| On about the first of each month subscri-
| bers will also receive the Monthly Chronicle.
! containing, among other things, a record of
such important changes in the name and condi-
! tion of firms, throughout the country as NAV
occur subsequent to the publication of each
! half yearly volume Of the Mercantile Reference
| Register.
Price of The Merchants Union Mercantile
l Reference Register, fifty dollars, $500 for
which it will he Forwarded to any address in
the United States, tran sportation paid.
! Holders of five $40 shares of the Capital
/ Stock, in addition to participating in the pro-
! fits, will receive one cory of the Mercantile
Reference Register free of charge +; holders of
! ten shares will be entitled to TWO copies ; and
no more than ten shares Of the Capital Stock
! will he allotted to any applicant.
All remittances. orders, communications
relative to the book should be addressed to the
| Merchants Protective Union, in the American
/ Exchange Bank Building, No. I2S Broadway,
| (Box 25G6,) New York
September H. 1863. -9m.