The Old Reliable Speaks
January 14, 1905
Summary
A black businessman promotes his insurance company, citing its financial success despite recent laws passed by the Virginia general assembly.
Transcription
Mr. Editor:
Please permit us to state to our thousands of members in Virginia and Washington D. C. and other parts of this country through your widely circulated paper that the Richmond Beneficial Insurance Company is still in the same field and doing business at the same, old stand.
We feel called upon to make this statement because it has been a question in the public mind for quite a while as to whether one Sick Benefit Company would or could stand under the sweeping requirement of the last legislature of Va., namely-- the deposit in the State Treasury of $10,000.00 for the protection of policy holders.
The Richmond Beneficial Insurance Company having met this requirement, has also assumed the liabilities of the People’s Relief Association, the Freedmen’s Endowment Association, the Endowment Association of Virginia and the People’s Sheltering Arms Association of Manchester, Va.
This great company starts out with the year 1905 to do a greater insurance work than ever before. The work of this mammoth company is now being spread over the entire state by the combined forces of nearly five-hundred persons.
Take out an application through any superintendent, manager or agent of the Richmond Beneficial Insurance Company or through any of the agents who formerly represented the four last named companies above mentioned and you will be right under the mammoth wing of the great Richmond Beneficial Insurance Company, who will surely protect you.
Home Office-- No. 728 N. Second St.
E. F. Johnson, President
John T. Taylor, Sec. and Gen. Man.
Please permit us to state to our thousands of members in Virginia and Washington D. C. and other parts of this country through your widely circulated paper that the Richmond Beneficial Insurance Company is still in the same field and doing business at the same, old stand.
We feel called upon to make this statement because it has been a question in the public mind for quite a while as to whether one Sick Benefit Company would or could stand under the sweeping requirement of the last legislature of Va., namely-- the deposit in the State Treasury of $10,000.00 for the protection of policy holders.
The Richmond Beneficial Insurance Company having met this requirement, has also assumed the liabilities of the People’s Relief Association, the Freedmen’s Endowment Association, the Endowment Association of Virginia and the People’s Sheltering Arms Association of Manchester, Va.
This great company starts out with the year 1905 to do a greater insurance work than ever before. The work of this mammoth company is now being spread over the entire state by the combined forces of nearly five-hundred persons.
Take out an application through any superintendent, manager or agent of the Richmond Beneficial Insurance Company or through any of the agents who formerly represented the four last named companies above mentioned and you will be right under the mammoth wing of the great Richmond Beneficial Insurance Company, who will surely protect you.
Home Office-- No. 728 N. Second St.
E. F. Johnson, President
John T. Taylor, Sec. and Gen. Man.
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Upper Right Quadrant
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Ryan Shah
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“The Old Reliable Speaks,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed August 13, 2026, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/209.