STANDARD AMERICAN A COMPLETE COMPENDIUM EMBRACING PENMANSHIP and CORRESPONDENCE; A SHORT By E. T. ROE, LL. B. For twenty years U. S. District Attorney, author of "Criminal Proced- GORDON G. SAPP PUBLISHER CHICAGO 1915. KE 3909 HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY NEW ENLARGED EDITION BY GORDON G. SAPP Exclusive Manuscript Rights are Copyright MCMXI Copyright MCMIV Copyright MOMVI Copyright MCMVI Copyright MCMXII Copyright MOMXIII Copyright MCMXIV Gordon G. Sapp Copyright MCMXV Gordon G. Sapp PREFACE HIS little work 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 The matter it contains has not been gathered at random, or from out-of-date publications, but has been carefully prepared by practical specialists, experienced in the particular kinds of business of which they respectively treat.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 hints 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. 3-The latest census tables, interest, limitation and exemption 3 laws of all the States, and a large amount of statistical information that cannot be found in any other publication. 4. Tables for rapid computation and ready information, constructed so simply that they can be easily understood and practically used by every one having the slightest knowledge of figures. 5. A miscellaneous collection of useful information pertaining to all the business and social relations of life. Altogether it forms not only an almost indispensable safe counselor and guide for the business man, but also a convenient volume of general reference that is of incalculable value to every citizen. E. T. ROE. NEW AND REVISED EDITION-1915 This Fourteenth Edition has been revised, rearranged and brought up to date, and new matter aaded. Our constant aim is to publish only thoroughly reliable and accurate works. Not only is this volume accurate, but in the words of the Herald and Presbyter of Cincinnati "It makes one wonder how so much valuable information could be packed within the compass of its dimensions." INCLUDING SPECIAL CHAPTERS COMPRISING: The New Federal Income Tax Law Requirements. Bank Checks for Travelers. Express Business as Affected by the Parcels Post. Customs Duties and Free List Under the New Tariff Act. |