Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1868-09-03
: The Merchants Protective Union
MERCANTILE REVERENCE REGISTER

TNHE MERCHANTS PROTECTIVE UNION, organ
L lied to promote and protect trade, by enabl-
ing its subscribers to attain facility and safety
in the granting of credits, and the recovery Of
claims at all points, have to announce thai
they will, in September, 1868, publish in one
large quarto volume: 9]H i'''s ~ W.T.
The MERCHANTS, PROTECTIVE UNION MERcAN,
utf1er Things, the Names, Nature of business,
Amount of Capital, Financial Standing and
Rating as to Credit, of over 1000 of the
principal merchants, traders, bankers, MANU-
facturers, and public companies, in more than
80, 900 of the cities, towns, villages, and set
Elements throughout the United States, their
territories, and the British Provinces of North
America !; and embracing the most important
information attainable and necessary to enable
the merchant to ascertain at glance the Oap-
ital, Character and Degree of Credit Of such Of
his customerscas are deemed worthy Of any
graduation Of credit, comprising, also, a Nescs-
paper Directory, containing the title, charac-
ter, 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.lJ & ! q. ~ 1sai = T. 'ag
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 aud corrected by
well known and reliable legal correspondents,
whose character will prove a. guarntee- of the
correctness Of the information 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
previously issued. j! VIZ; f,st9f,t.cw IL }4<<
By aid of the MERCANTILE REFERENCE REG
lister, business men will be abled to ascertain,
alta glance, the capital and graduation of credit,
as compared with financial worth of nearly
every merchant, manufacturer, trader and
banker, within the above. named territorial
limits.
; On or about the first of each month, sub
scribers will also receive the Monthly Chroai-
Gle, containing, among other things, a record
of such important change in the name and con-
dition OF firms, throughout the country, las may
occur subsequent, to the publication of each
half-yearly volume of the AIERcANTIfE REFER
ENCE REGISTER {--..7f,.sT - -s
Price Of the Merchants Union Mercantile
Reference Register, Fifty Dollars; ,($50)Hfor
which it will be forwarded to any address in
the United States, transportation paid.
Holders of five $40 shares, of the Capital
Stock, in addition to participating in the pro-
fits, will receive one copy 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 be allotted to any one applicant.
All remittances, orders or communications,
relative to the book should be addressed to
the Merchants Protective Union, in the Amer
lean Exchange Bank Building No. l28 Broad
way, (box 2566) New York. 20
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