The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1868-10-24
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TIE MERoHASTs' PROTECTIVE UNION, organized
TO, promote and protect trade, by enabling its
Subscribers to attain facility and safety in the
granting Of credits, md the recovery of claims ut
all points, have o announce that thcy will. ON
or about September 3O 1868, publish in one lurge
quarto .yOl,mc:s, ,,s IA LA.
THE MERCHANTS PROTECTIVE UNION. organized
to promote and protect trade, by enabling its sub.
scrbcrs to attain facility and safety in the granting
Of Credits and the recovery of claims at ali points
nave to announce atAthey will, in September
i"US' publish in ono large pnrtosyolnmc; ;.
THE MEhCHANTs' PnOTrCT;y w UNroN MsRc,Sr1Ir
REEFEnEHcE REGisrEH, containing, among other
things, the NAMES, NArUnE or BUSINESS, AMOUNT
~ CAPITAL, FiSASCIAb STANDING, AND RATING AS TO
CnEDiT, OF over 400 600 of the principal merchants
rndcrH. bankers, mnnufnct cturcrs nnt. public
companies i'll more than 0OaD OF the cities towns,
yillnges, and settlements throughout the United
States, their territories, ind the British Provinces
ol North Amcricn; and embracing the most impor-
TINT information uttninnbc and NECESSARY to enable
the merchant to ascertain nj o glance the CApIrAL
CHAnAcTER. and DEGREE Of. UnEDIT Of such of his
customers as arc deemed worthy of any gradution
OF credit, comprising, also n Newspaper Dnecfo,y
continuing the title, character price and placc of
publication with full particulars relative to each
journal, being complete guide to the press of every
county in the United States.
Thc reports AM, information will be confined to
those deemed worthy of some limo of credit md
ns the same will he bnsed, SO far as practicable
npon the written statements Of the parties them
selves, revised nnd corrected by wcii-known nn5i
rclaR'c regal correspondents, whose character will
prove guarantee Of the correctness of the infor-
mntion furnished by them. it is believed that the
reports will prove more trit hful and complete md
therefore, superior TO- and of much greater value.
thnn any previously issued
By aid of the MERCANTILE REFERENCE REGIsTrR
business men will been cnablcd TO ascertain. ut n
glance the capital and graduation of credit, fns
compared with financial WORTH of nearly every
merchant. manufactures, trader and banker within
the hbove-nnmcd territorial limits. S,
On or about the first caoio month"; subscribers
Will also receive the Monthly Chronicle, containing
among other things, n record of sn. silnportant
changes in the and condition of firms
throughout the country, MS may occur subsequent
tothc publication of each half yearly volume of the
MERCANTILE REFERENCE REGISTER: - -.,-,...-. i, .
ircc cf The Merchants Union Mercantile ReE-renc.
Register ffy dollars ($5O, lfor rAich it UY 6e for.
~ardtd to any address in tie Intel States, tronxnor,a
ton paM tI 5 - +;
Holders cf .frc $40 share. Of the CAPITAL Sto~k. IL
addition to participating IN Mrirefis, N receire one
foPy 81 Hc MERCANTILE REFERENCE REGISTER free
Of charge: holders Of ten shares ,cM be emitted to Tw,,s
rap'e' and no more than ten shares ffhe Capital
Mock ~W be 0hotfrd To any onc applicant. r.,
<H rrntanctt oyrfers, communicative rclnfr, IN
lie book sh""id be dddrexscdi To tie Merchants Iotrc-
tire Union, II, he dmsricnn EIchdage Iionk BuHd;ug.
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