Agents wanted THE OVERTON-HYGIENIC CO. DEPT. H. C., CHICAGO, ILL. * * * * * _A Live Book for Live People_ HOW A NEGRO SHOULD CONDUCT A BUSINESS To Gain the Patronage of His Own People =PRICE $1.50 POST PAID= =Now in press. Will be published about Sept. 1, 1916= If you are in business or contemplate entering business, you should have this book. The book will contain Fourteen Chapters—not a dead line in it. =SYNOPSIS OF CHAPTERS= 1 A Brief Review of Early Negro Business Ventures. 2 Statistics of Negro Business in the United States. 3 Prejudice as it Affects the Negro in Business. 4 The Importance of Business in the Race’s Development. 5 What is Necessary to Secure the Patronage of Our Own People? 6 What is Necessary to Secure the Patronage of White People? 7 How to Buy Goods at the Lowest Price. 8 How to Establish Credit with Wholesale Houses. 9 What Constitutes Good Salesmanship? 10 Whom to Credit. 11 How to Make Collections. 12 How to Advertise. 13 How to Systematize a Business. 14 How to Conduct a Business in General. The price of the book is $1.50, but as a special inducement to advance subscriptions we will send it when published for One Dollar to those who will sign the attached slip and send to us before Aug. 20, 1916. =Cut out this coupon, sign and send to us promptly.= _Date_..................._19_.... =THE PROGRESSIVE BOOK PUBLISHERS Chicago, Ill.= _Gentlemen_: _Kindly enter my subscription for one copy of “How a Negro Should Conduct a Business,” for which I agree to remit [to you] $1.00 as soon as you send me notice that the book is ready._ _Name_................................................................ _Street or R. F. D._.................................................. _Town_............................................ _State_............