Business Hints for Men and Women

Contents

Chapter I - Common Sense Farming

• 1. Wealth, Land and Labor.
• 2. Money.
• 3. Sources of Wealth.
• 4. The Farmer, a Producer, and Seller.
• 5. Business Methods Essential.

Chapter II - Documents You Should Understand

• 1. Deeds.
• 2. Abstracts of Title.
• 3. Parties to a deed.
• 4. Different deeds.
• 5. Making a deed.
• 6. Recording deeds.

Chapter III - Forms Of Deeds And Mortgages

• 1. Trust deeds.
• 2. As to mortgages.
• 3. Mortgage forms.
• 4. Payments.
• 5. Assignments.
• 6. Redemption of mortgages.
• 7. Equity of redemption.

Chapter IV - Wills

• 1. Two kinds.
• 2. Limitations of wills.
• 3. How to make a will.
• 4. On executive duties.
• 5. Administrators.
• 6. Debts.
• 7. Final settlement.

Chapter V - Letter Writing

• 1. Business letters.
• 2. The heading.
• 3. Forms.
• 4. The greeting.
• 5. Body of letter.
• 6. Ending a letter.
• 7. Materials.
• 8. Letters of introduction, etc.

Chapter VI - Bills, Receipts And Accounts

• 1. Bills for goods.
• 2. Bills for labor.
• 3. Discounting bills.
• 4. Forms of receipts.
• 5. What is an order?

Chapter VII - Who Should Keep Accounts?

• 1. An account with crops.
• 2. Workingman's account.
• 3. Other records.
• 4. Copies.

Chapter VIII - As To Banks

• 1. National banks.
• 2. Banks as lenders.
• 3. Interest on deposits.
• 4. Check and deposit banks.
• 5. How to draw a check.
• 6. Certificates of deposit.
• 7. Use of checks.

Chapter IX - Savings Banks

• 1. How business is conducted.
• 2. How to deposit.
• 3. How account grows.
• 4. Limit of deposit.
• 5. How to draw money.
• 6. Savings bank revenues.

Chapter X - Notes Drafts

• 1. Definition and illustration.
• 2. Days of grace.
• 3. Indorsing notes.
• 4. Negotiable notes.
• 5. Joint notes.
• 6. Discounting notes.
• 7. Interest on notes.
• 8. Protests.
• 9. Notices.
• 10. Accommodations.
• 11. Lost notes.
• 12. Notes about notes.

Chapter XI - A Draft

• 1. To make a draft.
• 2. Forms.
• 3. For collection.
• 4. Dishonor.
• 5. Protests.
• 6. Buying drafts.
• 7. A good plan.
• 8. Good as cash.

Chapter XII - Just Money

• 1. What is money?
• 2. United States money.
• 3. Metal money.
• 4. Paper money.
• 5. Bank notes.
• 6. "Greenbacks."
• 7. Treasury certificates.
• 8. Worn-out notes.

Chapter XIII - Our Postal Business

• 1. The department.
• 2. Rural free delivery.
• 3. Classified mail matter.
• 4. Postal rules.
• 5. Foreign rates.
• 6. Stamps.
• 7. Postal cards.
• 8. Registering letters.
• 9. Special delivery.
• 10. Money orders.
• 11. Cashing P.O. orders.
• 12. Advice.

Chapter XIV - Telegrams The Telephone

• 1. Description.
• 2. Directions.
• 3. Charges.
• 4. Telegraphing money.
• 5. The method.
• 6. The telephone.

Chapter XV - Business By Express

• 1. Two kinds.
• 2. Instructions.
• 3. The company's duty.
• 4. Collections by express.
• 5. C. 0. D. by express.
• 6. Money by express.
• 7. Money orders.

Chapter XVI - About Railroads

• 1. Bills of lading.
• 2. Express bills.
• 3. A bill and a draft.
• 4. Some forms.

Chapter XVII - Taxes

• 1. Definition.
• 2. Kinds of taxes.
• 3. Customs duty.
• 4. Internal revenue.
• 5. Stamps.
• 6. State taxes.
• 7. Exempt from taxes.
• 8. Insufficient taxes.
• 9. Personal property.
• 10. Town taxes.
• 11. Payments.
• 12. Corporation taxes.
• 13. Taxes in general.
• 14. The returns.

Chapter XVIII - Contracts Leases Guarantees

• 1. Requisites to a contract.
• 2. The consideration.
• 3. Written and verbal contracts.
• 4. Forms of contract.
• 5. Kinds of contract.
• 6. A lease.
• 7. As to repairs.
• 8. Sub-letting.
• 9. What is a guaranty?
• 10. A bill of sale
• 11. Obligations.

Chapter XIX - Life Insurance

• 1. A definition.
• 2. How it is done.
• 3. As an investment.
• 4. Forms of life insurance.
• 5. Mutual insurance.
• 6. Amount of policies.
• 7. Policies as security.
• 8. Lapses.
• 9. Proprietary companies.

Chapter XX - Insurance Fire Accident

• 1. Like a gambling risk.
• 2. What is fire insurance?
• 3. Premiums.
• 4. Collecting.
• 5. Insurable property.
• 6. Mutual companies.
• 7. Stock companies.
• 8. Accident insurance.

Chapter XXI - Partnerships

• 1. Defined.
• 2. Prepare and sign.
• 3. Silent partners.
• 4. Nominal partners.
• 5. Liability.
• 6. How to dissolve.
• 7. Notice necessary.
• 8. A form.

Chapter XXII - Investments

• 1. What is an investment?
• 2. Savings.
• 3. Capitalists.
• 4. Stockholders.
• 5. Kinds of stocks.

Chapter XXIII - Bonds As Investments

• 1. As to bonds.
• 2. Sorts of bonds.
• 3. Railroad bonds.
• 4. Buying bonds.
• 5. Requisite in a bond.

Chapter XXIV - Things To Remember

• 1. Don't deceive yourself.
• 2. Be sure you are not losing.
• 3. Weeding out old stock.
• 4. Dropping worthless accounts.
• 5. Let your wife know.
• 6. Children and business.
• 7. Farmers' sons.

Chapter XXV - Worth Knowing

• 1. How title is acquired.
• 2. Over-generosity.
• 3. Care of wills.
• 4. Care of all papers.
• 5. Checks and stubs.
• 6. Sending away money.
• 7. Lost in mails.
• 8. More about notes.

Chapter XXVI - Look Before You Leap

• 1. As to receipts.
• 2. Notes in bank.
• 3. Well to know.
• 4. Discharging liens.
• 5. Prompt but not too prompt.
• 6. Be in no haste to invest.
• 7. Meet dues promptly.
• 8. Counting money.
• 9. Ready money.
• 10. In traveling.

Chapter XXVII - Contractions And Signs

• 1. An alphabetical arrangement.

Chapter XXVIII - Words And Phrases Used

• 1. Defined and alphabetically arranged.