Writer recalls relative's wedding-night abduction nearly 90 years ago
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June is a popular month for weddings in Minnesota. It's been that way for years. This evening, commentator Peg Guilfoyle plans to celebrate the anniversary of one unusual wedding that made headlines 90 years ago.
Commentator Peg Guilfoyle is a writer in Stillwater. Tonight she plans to dine at the old Livestock Exchange Building in South St. Paul, where William Condon, aka great Uncle "Tex," undoubtedly did business.
You can read the full newspaper story about his unusual wedding reception.
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