Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1868-09-25
The Merchants PrOte ctive
Union.
MERCANTILE REFERENCE REGISTER.

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| THE MERCHANTS PROTECTIVE UNION, organized
to promote and protect trade, by enabling its sub
scribers TO attain facility and safety in the grant.
ing of credits. and the recovery of claims ut all
pointe. have to announce that they will, In Sep
tcinber. 1868 publish in one large quarto volume:
| The MERCHANTS PROTECTIVE UNION MERcAE-
TILE REFERENCE REGISTER, containing, among
| other things, thu. NAMES, NATURE OF BUSINESS,
AMOUNT OF CAPITAL, FINANCIAL STANDING, AND
RATING AS TO CREDIT. OF over 100000 OF the prin-
cipa merchants, traders, bankers, manufacturers,
aud public companies, in more than $4,000 Of the
cities, towns villages, and settlements through
out the United States, their territories, and the
British Provinces ofNorth America and embrac-
| ing the most important information attainable
| and necessary to enable the merchant to ascer-
| tain at a glance the CAPITAL, CHARACTER. and
DEGREE OF CREDIT of such of his customers as
are deemed worthy Of any graduation of credit,
comprising, also, a Newspaper Dire Glory. con-
tanning the title, character. price, and place of
publication, with full particulars relative to each
| journal, being 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 sape will be based so far as practical
| BILE. upon the written statements of the parties
| themselves revised and corrected by well-known
and reliable legal correspondents, whose charac-
| ter " i'll prove guarantee 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 any previously issued.
| BY aid of the MEncANrILE REFERENCE Il GIs-
TER. business men will be enabled TO ascertain,
at glance, the capital and graduation OF credit, as
| compared with financial worth. of early every
merchant, manufacturer, trader, and banker,
within the ahoye-named territorial ii nits.
| Onorabout the first ofeaeh month, subscribers
will also receive the Monthly Chronicle. contain
| ing, among other things, record of such inn
portant changes i'll the name and condition of
firms, throughout the county, ms may occur sub
sequent to the publication oil each haii-yearly
volume Of the MERCANTILE REFkEENcE HEGls-
TER:
Price Of the Merchants Union Mercantile Rel
erence Register, fifty dollars, $500 for which it
will be forwardedto any address i'll the United
States, transportation paid
Holders of five $40 shares of the Capital Stock
in addition 10 participating in the profits, 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
relrtive to the book should be addressed to the
Merchants Protective Union, ii the American
Exchange Bank Building, No, 12S Broadway
[Box $780, New York Aug. 26-4m.