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Emma McChesney Takes On A Hotel Conundrum
Emma McChesney arrives in town with her son Jock and learns the Benevolent Bisons convention fills the hotel. She negotiates a room, endures a night of crowded lodging, and watches Jock’s first business lesson unfold as Ed Meyers accuses him in a poker-steeped sequence at Sulzberg Stein.
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Emma McChesney
Knickerbocker
Galesburg
Ill
Albia
Iowa
Monmouth
Pullmans
Jock McChesner
Mr. Sims
Ed Meyers
Meyers
Strauss Sans-silk Skirt Company
Ashland
Jock McChesney
Jack
Pittsburgh
Mrs. McChesney
Main Street
The
Bisons
Jack McChesney
Jock
Sulzberg-Stein
Sulzberg
Sulzberg & Stein
Old Sulzberg
New York
Young Stein
Chicago
Old Salzberg
Sulzberg & Stein's
Fat Ed Meyers
Strauss Sans-silk Skirt
Union Underskirt and Hosiery Company of Chicago
Emma McCresney
McChesney
T. A. Buck
Turkey
Diana
Old Weston
Beauty
Nussbaum
DeKalb
Dayton