Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1868-11-20
The Merchants Protective Union
MERCANTILE REFERENCE REGISTER

INHE 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 o.
claims at all points, have to announce thai
they will, in September, 1868, publish in one
large quarto volume s..--e. = ...-
The MERCHANTS PROTECTIVE UNION MERcAN-
TILE REFERENCE REGISTER, containing among
other things, the Names, Nature Of Business
Amount of Capital, Financial Standing and
Rating as to Credit, of over 400, 600 of the
principal merchants, traders, bankers, manu-.
factrrers, and public companies, in more than
80, 900 of the cities, towns, villages, and set
Elements throughout the United States, theil
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.
ital, Character and Degree of Credit of such o.
his customers as are deemed worthy OF any
graduation of credit, comprising, also, fews
paper Directory, containing the title, charac
ter, price, and place Of publication, with full
particulars relative to each journal, being &
complete guide to the press Of every county il
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, 80 far as prac.
hcable, upon the written statements OF thu
parties themselves, revised aud corrected by
well known and reliable legal correspondents
whose character will prove guarntee of thu
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, thar
previously issued. 81. . = .It
By aid of the MERCANTILE REFERENCE REG
lister, business men will be abled to ascertain
at a glance, the capital and graduation of credit
as compared with financial worth Of nearly
every merchant, manufacturer, trader an(
banker, within the above named territorial
limits.
On or about the first of each month, sub
scribers will also receive the Monthly Chroni
Gle, containing, among other things, RECORD
of such important change in the name and con
dition of firms, throughout the country, as may
occur subsequent to the publication of eacf
half-yearly volume of the MERCANTILE REFER
ENcE REGISTER:
Price of the Merchants Union Mercantil,
Reference Register, Fifty Dollars, (S5O) fol-
which it will be forwarded to any address il
the United States, transportation paid.
Holders of five, $40 shares of the Capita
Stock, in addition to participating in the pro
fits, will receive one copy Of the MERcANTILl
REFERENCE REGISTER free of charge; holders O
ten shares will be entitled to TWO copies
and no more than ten shares of the Capita
Stock will be allotted to any one applicant.
All remittances, orders or communications
relative to the book should be addressed tt
the Merchants Protective Union, in the Amer
lean Exchange Bank Building, No. 1913 Broad
way. (box 2566) New York.
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