THE NEW STANDARD AMERICAN A COMPLETE COMPENDIUM EMBRACING FINANCE; TRADE and SPECULATION; A SHORT By E. T. ROE, LL. B. For twenty years U. S. District Attorney, author of "Criminal Proced- GORDON G. SAPP PUBLISHER CHICAGO · 1917 NEW ENLARGED EDITION COPYRIGHT 1917 BY GORDON G. SAPP Exclusive Manuscript Rights are Copyright MCMXI Copyright MOMIV Copyright MCMVI Copyright MCMVI Copyright MCMXII Copyright MCMXIII Copyright MCMXIV Gordon G. Sapp Copyright MCMXV Gordon G. Sapp Copyright MCMXVI Gordon G. Sapp $2 PREFACE HIS volume is intended as a safe and trustworthy guide to the proper transaction of all kinds of business. It supplies the necessary legal and business information, together with the appropriate forms, for the successful conduct of practical business of every description. The matter it contains has not been gathered at random, or from out-of-date publications, but has been carefully prepared by practical specialists, experienced in the particular kinds of business of which they respectively treat. Its collection of commercial and legal forms is so complete as to enable any person to readily draw up almost any kind of business document that may be required, including Contracts, Deeds, Leases, Mortgages, Bonds, Bills of Sale, Bills of Lading, Building Agreements, Articles of Partnership, Promissory Notes Orders, Due Bills, Receipts, Powers of Attorney, Guarantees Wills, etc. The innumerable points of law and valuable business helps and bints it contains are not scattered haphazardly through the work, but are all arranged systematically, under appropriate headings, with index commencement words printed in bold faced type, so that the eye of the reader catches the particular information wanted immediately. Besides its legal and practical business information, the work contains: 1-A comprehensive symposium on Finance, Credit and Commercial Exchange, Trade and Speculation. The principles underlying business success. How to advertise, and how to Invest Small Savings Successfully. 2-The Parcels Post System of the United States with Rates and Chart. Easy Lessons in Penmanship, Bookkeeping and Letter Writing. -The latest census tables, interest, limitation and exemption 3 370191 |