On this day, the following advertisement appeared in Amrita Bazar Patrika, published from Calcutta:
THE UNIVERSAL MARRIAGE PROVISION AND FAMILY RELIEF FUND.
ESTABLISHED — MAY 1894.
OBJECT:- (1) To afford pecuniary help to the marriages of nominees of its members.
(2) To make suitable provisions for the nominees of its members during life-time or after death. Thus the Fund has to (two?) departments — “D” (Death) and “M” (Marriage). It paid away as bonus in the “D” and “M” departments Rs. 8,110-4 and Rs. 16,848-8 from 1894-95 up to 1887-88 respectively. Agencies in Amritsar, Majitha and Sylhet at Moradabad in the N.-W. P. at Jamalpur (Monghyr) and at Cocanada and Dowlaishweram in the Madras Presidency. For particulars, Forms, Rules and Reports, apply with one anna postage stamp to
SARAT CHANDRA GHOSH,
Secretary,
17 Harimohan Bose’s Lane,
Musjidbari Street, Calcutta
