The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1869-01-07
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MR ercEsanfs' Protective Union
Ael Mercantile Reference Reg

W. Mercantile Reference Reg
lister. 1ltFF
The Merchants Protective Union. organized to
promote and protect trade. by enabling its sub
scribcrs to attain facility and safety in the grant
ing of credits, and the recovery of claims at all
points, have to announce that they will, on or
about September LIST, 1868, publish in one large
quarto volume:
The MrcAants' Protective Union Mercantile Refer
Register, containing, among other things, the
Names, Natute of Business, Amount Of Capital, FL
nancial Standing, and Rating to Credit, of over
100000 of the principal merchants traders, bank
cas-, manufacturers, and public companies, in more
than 3d. 900 of the cities, towns, villages and set
Elements, throughout the United States their ter
ritories, and the British Provinces of North Ameri-
ca and embracing the most important informa-
ton attainable and necessary to enable the mer-
chant to ascertain 1T glance the Capital, Charac-
ter, and Degree of Credit of such Of his customers
as are deemed worthy of any graduation of credit
The reports and information to be given in the
Register will be confined to those deemed worthy
of some line Of credit; and as the same will be
based, so far Us practicable, upon the written
statements of the parties themselves, revised and
corrected by well-known and reliable legal CORE
spondents, whose character will 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, supe-
rior to, and of much greater value, than any pre-
vicusly issued
By aid of the Merchants Protective Union Mcr-
camille Reference Register, business men will be
enabled TO ascertain, at a glance, the capital and
graduation Of credit, compared witg financial
worth, Of nearly every merchant, manufacturer
trader, and banker, within the above named terri
torial limits.
On or about the first of each month subscribers
will also receive the Monthly Chronicle, containing
among other things, record of such important
changes in the name and condition of firms,
throughout the country, may subsequent
to the publication of each half yearly volume Of
the Mercantile Reference Register:
Price Of The Merchants Union Mercantile Ref
Register, fifty dollars, $500 for which it
will be 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 profits, viii re-
ceive one copy of the Mercantile Reference Reg
lister free of charge; holders of ten shares will be
entitled to . copies; and no more than ten shares
of Capital Stock will be allotted to any one APP
plieant.
All remittances, orders, or communications rel
alive TO the book should be addressed to the Mer-
chants Protective Union, in the American Ex-
change Bank Building, No. l2s Broadway, Box
$780, New York. aug 26-tf
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