The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-11-19
TEN III E MER G. II A N T S
= PROTECTIVE UNION
MERCANTILE REFERENCE REGISTER

THE MERCHANTS PROTECTIVE UNION, organ
| lied to promote and protect trade, by enabling
| its subscribers to attain facility and safety in
| the granting of credits, and the recovery of
claims at all points, have to announce that they
| will, in September, 1865, publish in one large
! quarto volu ne:
| THE MERCHANTS PROTECTIVE UNION MER-
| cANTILE RFS NC p REGISTER, containing
| among other things, the Names, Nature of
| Business. Amount of Capital, Financial Stand
| ing. and Rating as to Credit, of over 400 0G0
! of the principal merchants, traders, bankers,
| manufacturers, and public companies, in more
/ than 80 600 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
| information attainable and necessary to enable
| the merchant to ascertain at glance the Cap
| itaI, Character, and Degree of Credit of such
| of his customers as are deemed worthy of any
| gradation of credit comprising, also, a y EW s.
| 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 viii 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,
! whose character viii prove guarantee of the
! correctness OF the information furnished by
! them, it is believed that the reports viii prove
| more truthful and complete, and, therefore
! superior to, and of mi ch greater value than
! any previously issued.
| By aid of the Mercantile Reference Regis,
| 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, manufacturer, trader, and
banker, within the above named territorial
! limits.
On or aboat the first of each month, subscri-
! bers will also receive the Monthly Chronicle
containing, among other things, record OF
such important changes in the name and condi
tion of firms, throughout the country, as may
occur subsequent to the publication of each
| half early volume of the Mercantile Reference
! Register.
Price of The Merchants Union Mercantile
Reference Register, fifty dollars, ($50.) for
/ which il will he 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 cory of the Mercantile
Reference Register free of charge holders oil
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, communications
relative to the book should be addressed to the
! Merchants Protective Union, in the A mericar
Exchange Bank Building, No. I25 Broadway
! [Box 2566) New York.
September II, 1868. 9m.