A Modern Shopping Temple
December 9, 1905
Summary
The Cohen Company finishes improving its “buyers’ paradise” store.
Transcription
The Cohen Company has now completed the improvements in their mammoth establishment and can now lay just claim to being the happy possessors of one of the largest establishments of the kind in all the South-land. The cost of improvement has been $102,000 and the value of the stock offerings approximate $400,000.
This firm knows what it is talking about when it announces that it can quote prices that will save you money. It is the close buyer’s paradise. The Cohens are closely identified with Richmond’s progress and by years of persistent effort have built up a business that anyone might envy. You need Christmas goods. Call and see them. Their salesmen and sales-ladies understand the business thoroughly and will treat you right. Read the quotations made to Planet readers in another column. Out of town orders promptly filled. Mention the Planet and they will know exactly to what you refer in the matter of prices.
This firm knows what it is talking about when it announces that it can quote prices that will save you money. It is the close buyer’s paradise. The Cohens are closely identified with Richmond’s progress and by years of persistent effort have built up a business that anyone might envy. You need Christmas goods. Call and see them. Their salesmen and sales-ladies understand the business thoroughly and will treat you right. Read the quotations made to Planet readers in another column. Out of town orders promptly filled. Mention the Planet and they will know exactly to what you refer in the matter of prices.
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Lower Left Quadrant
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Ryan Shah
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“A Modern Shopping Temple,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed January 19, 2026, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/1300.