at first , the two sisters went into the grocery store business and when chaya married jacob in 1912 the couple set up their own store , all of them just five minutes walk from the u.s. capitol building there are only three things i inherited from my grandfather : his pocket watch , his ticket stub from the crossing of the atlantic , and a congressional pass from the 1920s when he got to sit in the balcony and watch the house of representatives in action .