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Marion Marlowe on the Prairie, or, A Thrilling Ride Across Kansas

1901 · Free to read

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About this issue

This issue of My Queen, a weekly journal for young women published by Street & Smith, contains "Marion Marlowe on the Prairie; or, A Thrilling Ride Across Kansas" by Grace Shirley. The serial opens with Marion Marlowe, star of the Temple Theatrical Company, and her companions—fellow actress Miss Ellis and Alma Allyn—visiting a fortune teller named Madam Zhangara in Kansas City. The fortune teller predicts Miss Ellis will marry within a year and expose a treachery against a friend; Alma will marry a stranger who falls in love with her from the audience; Marion receives an unspecified prophecy that visibly disturbs her. The chapter concludes with the group reuniting with Bert Jackson, the company's comedian, for dinner. The issue also contains extensive testimonial advertisements for Dr. T. A. Slocum's patent remedies for consumption, catarrh, and lung ailments.

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