One of the most frequent inquiries received in a newspaper or directory office is "Who are the agents for-2" There is only one source of information—the China Hong List or the Shanghai Directory; if these publications do not contain the answer there is no other means of obtaining it—a substitute usually has to be found.
The cost of Agency Advertising in these two directories is merely a nominal one (One Dollar per Agency) and is one of the most valuable forms of local publicity, For one dollar your agency appears in both the above publications (January and July) in two places, under the representative's name in "Shanghai Hongs" and in the alphabetical "Agents Directory.".
If you wish your agencies to appear, please forward list with your return together with $1 per agency to the China Hong List, 17 The Bund.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.