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All's Well That Ends Well to Mrs Johnson
A reader's friend recounts a lengthy tale about Mary Lawton, a penniless sewing girl who answers a marriage ad in a Chicago paper, travels west for a presumed husband on a cattle ranch, and faces a moral crisis before a hopeful reunion and a wedding to George Garland after intervention by Mrs Dallas.
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California
Dallas
Groneu Garlann
Clermont
Col
Mary Lawton
Sunday Tribune
Chicago
Eastern College
Abe King
Mary
Saint George and the Dragon
Una
Cinderella
Prince Charming
Beauty and the Beast
Strug
Yromen
Beulah
West
Colorado
Yebak
Sithout
Glermont
Burdock
Piedmont
Mrs. Thompson
Randlady
George Garland
Mr. Garland
Thad
Jerry Brown
George
Jerry
Jerry Browne
New York
London Standard
Standard
Messrs. Maudsley
Benbow
Rng
Armstrong Company
J. K. Patterson
Berlin
Peabody
Kas
James Clancey
Stoughton
John Elward
Helen Zillman
Rockville
Manitowoc County
Neillsville
Satterlee & Clark
Satterlee
Dewy Spanprye
Wm. 0
Spalding
Watertown
Red Wing
Minn
Juneau
Wood Counties
Graver
Sp. Crosse
Murra
Theater
French Presbyterian Church
Robinsonville
West Menasha
Smith
Themerican House
Menasha
Crystal Falls
Old Settlers’ Society
Sheboygan County
Sanford’s Grove
Sheboygan Falls
Edward Peterson
Scott
Crawford County
Dwicht Nore
Nate
John Bileski
Sharon
Portage County
Sileski
Peter Hart Green
Chelsea
Bay Shore
Union
Door County
John Vincent
Lewis C. Wilson
Hayward
Tenth
Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers
Forty-ninth
Wisconsin Volunteers