Significados de mercantile agency en inglés

Just then a clerk came in and handed him a slip of paper, which I recognized as a special report from the mercantile agency.

But the mercantile agencies omit to tell us some very important points about men.

The facts obtained by mercantile agencies are not public property.

Bradstreet's and other mercantile agencies say, in reporting Randolph & Randolph, "Worth fifty millions and upward, credit unlimited."

When the mercantile agencies were young, they acquired a consensus of opinion upon a business man by annoying his acquaintances with inquiries.

"Are not the mercantile agencies almost always sure to find something against a man or a firm?"