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Twenty-Eighth Progressive Semi-Annual Statement of the

NEW HAMPSHIRE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF MANCHESTER.

Ex-Gov.  J.A.  WESTON, Pres’t. 
Hon. S.N.  BELL, Vice-Pres’t. 
GEO. B. CHANDLER, Treas. 
JOHN C, FRENCH, Secretary. 
S.B.  STEARNS, Ass’t Secretary.

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CONDITION OF THE COMPANY, JANUARY 1, 1884.

Cash Capital $500,000.00
Reserve for Reinsurance 227,985.28
Reserve for Unpaid.  Losses 31,000.00
Net Surplus 206,162.65

Total Assets $965,147.93

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT EACH YEAR SINCE ORGANIZATION.

YEAR.  ASSETS.  NET SURPLUS.  NET PREMIUMS CAPITAL. 
                                   RECEIVED.

1870    134,586.24    8,020.82      40,123.00       1870
1871    151,174.60   10,338.82      51,360.96    $100,000.00
1872    316,435.52   15,530.52      58,230.20       1872
1873    346,338.25   32,038.44     114,548.34    $200,000.00
1874    393,337.12   50,141.87     143,741.50       1874
1875    429,362.00   77,123.09     156,979.68    $350,000.00
1876    453,194.87   94,924.83     162,970.47       1882
1877    482,971.65  113,478.14     171,091.22    $500,000.00
1878    507,616.90  127,679.39     171,492.06
1879    537,823.59  147,133.04     206,515.73   Dividends paid
1880    585,334.20  171,249.88     248,220.00
1881    618,193.98  185,108.52     265,660.31        from
1882    915,132.37  204,407.96     346,951.90
1883    965,147.93  206,162.65     437,792.07  interest receipts.

SPECIAL ATTENTION IS CALLED TO THE ABOVE COMPARATIVE STATEMENT.

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THE CLAREMONT MANUFACTURING CO,

CLAREMONT, N.H.

offer the following books, not to be obtained elsewhere, at the annexed prices, by mail.

Pages.  Price,

Cora O’Kane, or the Doom of the Rebel Guard 84 $0.10 Gathered Sketches of New Hampshire and Vermont 215 .50 The Illinois Cook-Book, just published 166 .75 Grondalla, a in Verse. by Idamore 310 .50 The Old Root and Herb Doctor, or Indian Method 104 .50 New Hampshire in the Great Rebellion 608 2.50 What the Grocers Sell Us 212 1.00 William’s New System of Handling and Educating the Horse.  Illustrated 332 1.00

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THE POETS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Complied by Bela Chapin.

Being Specimen Poems of nearly three hundred Poets of the Granite State, with biographical notes.

A rigid criticism has been exercised in the selection of Poems, and no poet has been admitted to the pages of the book who has not a good right, by merit, to be there.