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W. F. Graham urges “all men and women engaged in business” to attend a meeting of the Richmond Business League.

The Cohen Company finishes improving its “buyers’ paradise” store.

J.W. Johnson, “one of the wealthiest colored men in the state,” travels throughout the South to pursue real estate deals.

Steam laundry companies announce an increase in prices, driving customers to “hundreds of colored washer-women, who depend for a livelihood upon this kind of employment.”

Moore and Archer, two black contractors, complete a variety of projects in Jackson Ward worth at least $35,000.

The American Bankers’ Association meets in Washington, D.C., in a “remarkable congregation of financiers.”

Mr. W. W. Scott opens a “modern shaving parlor” on Second Street.

John Mitchell, Jr., represents the Mechanics’ Savings Bank at the American Bankers’ Association meeting in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Albert A. Tennant, an “accomplished young physician,” opens a medical practice on North Second Street.

The Planet claims that the American Beneficial Insurance Company has grown faster than any company “in the history of the insurance world.”