A shoe-factory worker puts a note in a shoe box offering to marry the lucky buyer. As a result, she is dismissed from her job, but her employer finds her so attractive that he suggests a new job for her, as his wife.
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Florence Lawrence as Ella Berling
George Siegmann as The Butler
John R. Cumpson as In Office
Marion Leonard as Factory Employee
Anita Hendrie as The Mother
Anthony O'Sullivan as The Messenger / Factory Employee
United States 06 May 1909
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