The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1868-09-26
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Protective Union
MERCANTILE
REFERENCE
r EGIsTE R

The MERCHANTS Protective UNION, organized
to- promote and protect trade, by enabling iti
| subscribers 10 attain facility aud safety in the
granting of credits, and the recovery of claims al
all points, have to announce that they will, on
or about September 80, 1868, publish in one large
qunrto volume:
THE MERCHANTS PROTECTIVE UNION, organized
to promote and protect trade, by enabling its sub.
scribcrs to attain facility and safety in the granting
Of credits and the recovery Of claims al points
have to announce that they will, in September,
1868, publish in ono large quarto volume;
THE MERCHANTS PROTECTIVE UNION MERcA MILE
REFERENCE 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 go 900 Of the cities towns
villages, and settlements throughout the United
States, their tcrritorics and the British Provinces
OF North America; and embracing the most impor-
tant information attainable and necessary enable
the merchant to ascertain at glance the CAPITAL
CHAhACTER, and DEGREE OF CREDIT of such of his
customers ns arc deemed worthy Of any gradation
OF credit, comprising, also, Newspaper Directory,
containing the tio character, price, and place Of
publication, with full particulars relative to each
Journal being complete guide to the press or every
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 wcll-known and
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 REFBREScE REorsrRn
business men will been enabled to ascertain, at
glance, the capital and gradation of credit, as
compared with financial worth Of nearly every
merchant, manufacturer, trader, and bunker, within
the above-namcd territorial limits
On or about the first each month, subscribers
will also receive the Monthly Chronicle, containing
among other things, q record of such important
changes in the name and condition of firms
throughout the country, as may occur subsequent
to the publication Of each hafycarly volume of the
MEHcASTILE REFERENCE REGISTER:
Price Of The Merchants Union Mercantile Reference
Register, hy dollars, $3.50, )or mhich ,ciN be for
mardea TO any address III the United States transpora-
lion paid
Holders Of fire $40 shares of tie Capital Stock in
addition TO participating in MepreGts ,c receive one
copy Of the MERCAST1LE REFERENCE REGISTER free
Of charge holders Of shares rH be entitled to Two
copies: and no than ten shares Of The Capital
Stock 'cW be allotted to amy one applicant.
4H reniffances orders, communications re1niirc to
Me book shomd be addressed TO the Merchants Eyotec-
tire Union, ia Tie american Eychanye Bank Bul.l;ng
No. l2s B1Oad'e"y, (Bol, 2566,) .Ne,r- York.
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