Catching Up With Christmas A Business Adventure of Emma McChesney
Emma McChesney, traveling representative for the T. A. Buck Featherloom Petticoat Co, endures a six month run of bad luck. She confronts delays, ailing health, a son away at college, and the death of employer Old Buck, then steels herself to push the Christmas selling season in Columbus, Ohio, amid cold rooms, late trunks, and wavering buyers.
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Emma McCheasney
T. A. Buck Featherloom Petticoat Company
New York
Glen Rock
Minn
Emma McChesney
Jock McChesney
Marienbad
T. A. Buck
Middle Western
Old Buck
Columbus
Ohio
Singer & French
Jack
Mary Cutting
Dayton
Jock
Old Wells
Haviland
Idiemirec of
Algis
Ana
Mrs. McChesney Faces a Business Dilemma in New York
Emma McChesney weighs a high stakes offer from Abel Fromkin and Ed Meyers to join a growing skirt factory with capital from Fromkin. A traced trunk crisis and a sudden telegram shift her plans as she contemplates a bold move on her own terms.
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Abel Fromkin
Fromkin
Abe
Mrs. McChesney
Fat Ed Meyers
Mr. McChesney
Emma McChesney
Ed Meyers
Emma McChegney
T. A
Young Buck
Old Buck
Buck Junior
Mr. Meyers
Mr. Fromkin
Mr. Fraser
Mr. Ludwig
Mrs. McCheakey
Mr. Lad
Emma McChesay
New York
Meyers
Jooks
T Pe
Dees
J. A. Buck
Columbia City
Fair Land
T. A. Buck Featherloom Petticoat Company
Chumlys and Buck fates intersect in holiday plans
Emma McChesney learns she is offered secretaryship of T. A. Buck Incorporated with 30 shares after her late employer’s will. Buck reassures and Emma vows to stay in shearing work. Meanwhile Fred Chumly faces pressures to buy a new suit amid wedding rumors and family antics at Christmas.
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Susie
Mrs. Chumly
Chumly
T. A. Buck
Buck
Mr. Beggs
Father
Emma McChesney
Beggs
T. A. Buck, Incorporated
Mr. Buck
Mrs. McChesney
Fred
Susan
Fred Chumly
Cost of Civil War In Dollars and Lives
The Civil War cost more than eight billion dollars in direct expenditure on both sides and caused about thirty billion dollars in wider economic losses. Approximately one million lives were lost to bullets and wounds.
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United States
Impudent Boy Noted In Unfinished Exchange
Fragmentary dialogue shows a sharp rebuke as an impudent boy presses forward in an uncertain exchange. The overheard remark hints at social tension and questioning around behavior.
High. of Oil From Cocosmiuts
A fragment reports that 49 cocoanuts will yield allpp of oil. The text is incomplete but implies a calculation or claim about oil yield from coconuts.
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Edna Ferber
Frederick 4. Stokes
Ily
Clara Weber
Hungary
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