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The Colored American from Washington, District of Columbia • Page 15

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Washington, District of Columbia
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15
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vnr orwffyyyr MftHi 2SvSSwBE4KHEuiizSi HOWARD UNIVERSITY Washineton FK distinct departments under one hundred ompetent professors and instructors Theo- lo Medical Legal College Pedagogical pri i English Agriculture Industrial and Mi- il Forinformation address 3 Kev Rankin IX President Geo Safford Secretary very College trades ALLEGHENY PA A Practical Literary and Industrial Trade Sfiool lor Colored Boys arjd Girls Carpen trj Bricklaying Plastering Painting and iLerior JUecoratlons Tailoring Dress nfcing Millinery Voice Culture and Piano Ffite Literary department from Primary Normal Course Job Work Solicited and Fn lltb given to the Students talogues row ready Address Joseph Mahoney Principal Allegheny Pa A RARE OPPORTUNITY For Young Men Desiring to Enter the Ministry The Phelpss Hall Bible Training School conducteu In connection with the Tuskegee Normal and industrial Institute offers ex ceptlonal opportunities lor young men who wish to prepare lor the Christian ministry A special building known as the PhelpsHall Bible Training school Is set apart lor this department ol the work It contains a chapel library reading room office three rectta tion rooms and lorty sleeping rooms The teaching is wholly undenomicatlonal the lurpose being to help all denominations and not to antagonize any The cost of board Is Ss per month and students are given a chance to work out a portion of this leaving as a inie but dye or six dollars to pay In cash A Jew who have no money are given an opportunity to work out all of their expenses Lack of means need debar none The teach lnij in this department is free The next school term begins September 11 Further information may be had by addressing Book er Washington Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute Tuakagea Alabama DRESSMAKING ACADEMY The de Lain Orton Famous French Perfection Tailor System Academj Mmb A Smallwood Sole Agent 1513Madlaon St Northwest Morning class from 9 a to 1 rr Afternoon class 2 to 5 daily Evenings from 730 to 10 oclock Mondays Wednesdays and Friday Dressmakers and ladies wbo wish to dt their own dressmaking I Wanted To learn the wonder ful De Lamorton French PerfectJor layior System Seamless Basque without one Inch of visible seam ir lining or goods not even on the shoal eer Successful Dressmaking require us much earnest progressive study ar successful work in any of the professions No detail is too small to bt carefully looked after We teach yor to make dresses with or without sear and guarantee perfect fits and com pleteyour course with a diploma Pupils can enter at any time Hummer course begins June 15th iflPAftS Wanted a caseof bad health that will tbmcnt One gives relief No matter whats atter one will do you pood Acurowlllre it if direction nre followed They banish pain 1 Uo sleep prolonc life Sold at all drug stores i fTflve cents suro to pet tho genuine he fooled bv substitutes Ten samples and a sand testimonials will be mailed to any art- fur five cents forwarded to the Klpans Chemical Company No 10 Spruce St New York Miss Mabel Brown niece of Miss Ntilie A Plummer principal oftbe colored orphan school and Dr Plunder the Bouth Washington druggist is dangerously ill -at her home in Hyattaville Md TEE COLORED frTOT0A3if WASHINGTON 8 A BRAVE EDITOR KILLED Rev Benjamin Dies in his boots And in Defense of his Race A Sketch of His Life We are pained to chronicle the murdering of this bold and fearless editor He was murdered in the cause of his race while contending for the rightB of the Negro to be registered and allowed to vote Just how he was murdered will perhaps never be known We read the conflicting aocounts in the papers and nottfaing definite can be gleaned therefrom We hope future investigations will throw more light upon the case We all deplore his untimely death the race has lost a good valuable bold and fearless leader His life has been jeopardized in the South for years but he esteemed the interest of the race BENJAMIN paramount to that of his personal safe ty We give from the Enquirer a brief hiBtory of the man of thought whose watchword was ever onward and upward Benjamin was one of the most noted promoteis of the Negro race in America He was born in the Island of St Kitts WeBt Indies Mar 31 1855 He was educated at Oxford University England He traveled extensively in Europe Asia and Africa He entered the field of journalism in New York on the Star He owned and edited a number of raoe papers among them the Colored Citizen Pitts burg Pa The Chronicle EvanBville Ind The Neero American Birming ham Ala The San Francisco Sentinel and the Standard which he was pub lishing here at the time ot bis death He was a prolific writer and was the author of History of the BritiBh West Indies The Boy Doctor Poetic Gems Historical Chart Dont For Girls The Southland Churcholo gy Obadlah Kufl a novel Life of Touesaint LOuverture Ethnology or Origin of the Races etc As a lecturer he traveled all over Amsrca In politics he waB for his raoe first and in 1896 he opposed Mo Kinley and took the stump through Kentucky urging Negroes to better their own condition He was a member of the Fayette county bar and at Georgetown and Frankfort he was one of the attorneys for Caleb Powers and Tallow Dick Combs the former convicted of and the latter indicted for complicity in the assassination of William Goebel He was a Thirty second degree Mason in Kentucky Enquirer Miss Snsie A Finney of Petersburg Va who spent the summer with hfr friend Miss Janie Walker of 2211 Fsrp has returned to Virginia Semi nsr Lynchfcurg Va DDGTOfi SHBflS 1000 KEWARD ills Bk HftK Jit IP Gives tht names ol dead and living frinds tells who and when yon will marry also oi business Journeys lawsuits absent friends health or anything you wish to know no matter what it is He can caU up your spirit friends and show them to you Can make them rap all around the room He atks no questions dont ask you to write names him Dont try to pump you in any wr out tellB you right ofl He is thoroughly lnuorsed by leading spiritualists everywhere received from them a gold medal and special license to practice his wonderful powers credentials no one else can show can give thousands ot references to both -white and colored patroris Twenty five years practice seven in tsrook lyn will show you that he can do all he of Can tell what business is best for you and where how to win Bpeedy marriage with the one you love How to bo successful in all yonr doings in phort what is best to do He will succeed when all others fail Positive satisfac tiou or no pay Call and see You will find It luck to consult this hristian gentleman He has a medicine that will cure drunken ness can be given patients not knowing it Thousands through hinr are now BIOH HAPPY AND SUCCESSFUL with all their undertakingswhlle those neglect his advice are still laboring again poverty Through his perfect knowledge chemistry he can impart to you a secret tha will overcome your enemies and win you friends His aid and advice has often been solicited the result has always been the ee curlng of speedy and happy marriages and all your wlsnes In love affairs he never fails He has the secret ot winning the affections of the opposite sex It is the curse ot Spiritualism that In all large cities there are a class of men and women who claim powers they do not possess They have neither gifts credentials nor ref erences Surely the colored people are not so wanting in sense as to throw their time and money away on such Dr Shea refers to the Hon Charles Miller capitalist 2181 A1 lantlc avenue the Hon William Denmore architect and builder 47 Cleveland avenue and Mr Arthur Sewell ship builder South Brooklyn All have known him lor the past ten years He gives a free of his power to all The doctor has practiced five years in New Orleans St Louis Memphis and Louisville understands thoroughly the diseases spells or influences tne race is subject to He has now and always had large patronage from them PLEASE BEAD THE FOLXOWING Brok lyn August 15 1891 This letter is to certify that 1 came to New York from Alba ny I was a stranger in a strange city out of work and out of money I had no luck in anything I undertook What to do I did not know a friend advised me to go and see Dr Shea I did He told me the cause of my troubles he took me In and treated me as a brother Through him I got a good position that very week I had been to oth ers they took my money and did me no food 1 bless the day I first met Dr shea would advise all in bad luck sick or in trouble to go to bin at once Sincerely Albert Ayers 2937 Atlantic Avenue Have MARVELOUS MEDIUM 15 Brooklvn Anpnot ik icn hMM8 gone away and him Wirwrt uars mourned lor Hmr and day 1 gave him up at deaa JearlQEr Of tllH lrmrir iMntSSSe8SS3 ouuuu was alive and well and fteJm5W back like one0 frm i losTS I aTa ay i Wth almost lnsanti I imnt i ISSni W5T andtoVI yrzTi tw ua uo loia me jl manK that canheniimnucnri allied nii In i our midst ai Mrs MnrTr Millar oniblJaifitio 1 A SENSATION IN BROOKLYN SIINIBTEB STATBJUENT 1 wish to state that one of my parishioners Was BlCk anil In Imnhlo nr i i aw nivue bl UIC mini Brown 37 Oay street one stemtu io un- uCiotuiiu uci case one nau several uoelors but none ol thera seemed to know vhut was the matter Aoneconddoheranj iood it nas my duty an her fUbtor to can and see her Hearing of the wonaerlul work being done by Ut bhea tne last rew years 1 mought 1 would call iina see him myself 1 lound mm a sympatnetic gentleman ha gave ine a vonuenul test of hit powers told me to send nlm a lock patients hair which I did by her daughter He told at once what was the matter and In a short time cmed her Found and well Her family baa seemingly been under a cloud Now all Is changed All are well ind prosperous i can truly and heartily recommend Lr Shea to all those lnbickness or distress ol any kind Kev William Johnson pastor Lebanon chuich Brooklyn Dr Shea can show thousands Buch as the above DR BHEA has been carefully educated In the Homecpa thlc and Electrlo Schools ot Medicine Hi buccfcss Is wonderful in curing paralysis JUheumatism Asthma sore Eyes lumois Cancers constipation Ague OjfcLepsia Tape oims Liver Con plaints Deafness Catarrh Dropsy Plies Nervous Debility Heart Diseases Consumption Liseflbea ol Women and Children iiib Kidney Luease and strange mysterious dlfatases which others dont uaiderstand All dlseasesno matter what they be Nothing but honorable treatment He can and will honetly tell yon If you can he cured Has all new remedies and new success Has an ample experience In public hospital and private clinics No trilling with human life Call at once Do nol delay Diplomas hang In parlors Is a reg istered physician A new remedy lo rheu natlsm Just discoveied not a llnment Hopeless catves and those that oihers can nol nnrp Knlii llfJit tn nnll hot kIIi thin i cnildless made parents All letters muBt touiuiu olmj two ciu ups age jock oi hair Charges for medical treatment only Closed Sundays Mention this paper 651 Fulton Street Brooklyn ii Got a JOB ARE YOU EARNING BG PHONEY IF NOT THEN YOD SHOULD WK1TEAT ONCE TO HARTONA REMEDY CO 909 Main Street RICHMOND VA We want lady or gentlemen Agents in every town in the United States You can earn big money if you irill work for us even in your spare time Write to us to day This may he the cliance of your life This offer is open to ladies or gentlemen white or colored MMteHCT Oh I oHIpqI tfin yon lo lha or ttltbratcd ImptrUI VII Jiuy whtnr pltlr brUcn blct iVto mkinj almoit wWt MUtto or Ispht tlrni prom can bin cb tbt tlm mtirtli vhiu Oo bsttl all tfcat It rtqlrwl to roniplftr tht treatment and the ion not ha bt Irpl Uy Imptriel Whltener cannot fa3 It liurmlm in crtrj rnpect a4 I will pay 1100 to any on proinjt to tar contrary mr ciitci ai onci si ttt Of Improred machinery I have managed to male It at a pnre with tht ttaak of aS I hat beta telling it at SO 00 a bottle Recently I noWd it la 00 hot saw tatrodsct rt once I will ted a bottle ocrpid 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