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Page 204
... Lee doesn't help to cook . " A week later I went along to the offices of Lee Fong & Son , General Produce Merchants . I was conducted through a large outer office , full of desks , Chinese clerks and typewriters , to a spacious room ...
... Lee doesn't help to cook . " A week later I went along to the offices of Lee Fong & Son , General Produce Merchants . I was conducted through a large outer office , full of desks , Chinese clerks and typewriters , to a spacious room ...
Page 205
... Lee Fong and the man himself was , to say the least of it , a most extra- ordinary one , and I suppose there are few white men who have had the opportunity of coming in such close contact with the life of the Chinese com- munity as I ...
... Lee Fong and the man himself was , to say the least of it , a most extra- ordinary one , and I suppose there are few white men who have had the opportunity of coming in such close contact with the life of the Chinese com- munity as I ...
Page 207
... Lee Fong had enough information in his possession to make himself as rich as he pleased . He was a considerable property- owner , too , and a great power among the Chinese element , being a leading member of the local " lodge " of the ...
... Lee Fong had enough information in his possession to make himself as rich as he pleased . He was a considerable property- owner , too , and a great power among the Chinese element , being a leading member of the local " lodge " of the ...
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