The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1868-09-26
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Protective Union
Ml-]E1,RCANTIL.E
REFERENCE
R EG IS I E r !.

TnE MERCHANTS PROTECTIVE UsIoy, organized
to promote and protect trade, by enabling III
! subscribers to attain facility aud safety in the
granting Of credits, and the recovery of claims a,
all points, have to announce that they will on
or about September 80, 1868, publish In one large
quarto volumes
THE MEncHANTs' PROTECTIVE UNION, organized
to promote and protect trade, by enabling its sub
scrbers to attain facility and safety in the granting
OF Credits and the recovery Of claims all points
have to announce that they will, in September,
1868, publish in one large quarto volume
THE MERCHANTS PROTECTIVE UNION MERCANTILE
hEEFRnENcE REGISTER, containing, among other
things, the NAMES, NATURE OF BUSINESS, AMOUNT
OF CAPITAL, FINANCIAL STANDING, AND RATING AS TO
CREDIT, Of over 100000 Of the principal merchants
traders, bankers, manufacturers, and public
companies in more than $4,000 of the Cities towns,
villages, and settlements throughout the United
States, their territories and the British Provinces
OF North Amcrica; and embracing the most impor-
tant information atanabie and necessary to enable
the merchant to ascertain at glance the CAPITAL
CHAhACTER, md DEGREE OF CREDIT of such of his
customers as arc deemed worthy Of any gradation
OF credit, comprising, also, Newspaper Di-eeiory
containing the title, character, price, and place Of
publication, with full particulars relative to each
Journal being complete guide to the press Of eYery
county in the United States.
The reports and information will be confined to
those deemed worthy Of some line Of credit and
ns the same will be based so far as practicable,
upon tho written statements of the parties them
selves, revised and corrected by we-known and
rcliabe legal correspondents whose character will
prove guarantee Of the correctness of the infor-
nation furnished by them, it is believed that the
reports will prove more truthful and complete and
therefore, superior TO, and Of much greater value
than any previously issued
By aid Of the MERCANTILE REFERENCE REGISTER
business men will been enabled to ascertain, at a
glnnce, the capital and gradation of credit, as
compared with financial worth, of nearly every
merchant manufacturer, trader, and banker, within
the abovs-nnmcd tcrrit tornl 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-ycarly volume of the
MERCANTILE REFERENCE REGISTER:
Price Of The Merchants Union Mercantile Reference
Register Gfty dollars $3.50, for rhch it cU be for
rdrded TO any address III the United Sates, tran,porta-
Gon paid
Holders Of Jre $40 shares oft1e Capital Stock, in
addition to participating in profits, tcH recere one
copy Of the MERCANTILE REFERENCE REGISTER free
Of charge holders Of ten shares ,r be entitled to Two
copies and no than ten shares cfthe Capital
Stock miN he allotted to any one applicant.
al remfanccs, orders communications relatire TO
The book should be addressed to the Merchants Jrottc-
IRE Union, in he american Erchonge Bank building,
No. les Broai'cay, (Bor, 256G,) Nem- York.
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