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- The day's takings from a shop are stolen and an employee gives chase to catch the crooks.
- A couple unwittingly both invite their fathers to visit on the same day. The problem is, the fathers-in-law detest each other. Hi-jinx ensue.
- During the movement to repeal Prohibition, Oxidontal University student editor Elmer Brown is strongly in favor. He loves the daughter of an ardent prohibitionist; by chicanery, he tries to win Gloria and sell his bottle stopper invention.
- A gang of youngsters proceed to tear up the neighborhood with their mischief.
- Jack was a great help to his mother. He watched the baby while she did the neighbors' washings. ---Then he delivered the washing while mother hunted up more trade. Between deliveries Jack was captain of the East Side Base-BaIl Team. He was captain because he owned the ball. The score of the big game between the East Side and the West Side teams was forty to nothing in favor of the East Side when the game was called on account of darkness, but the West Side hadn't been to bat yeti But Jack's mother decided that her family was too large to be supported by the washing business and Jack was taken to an orphan asylum along with his dog. The dog wouldn't stay out of the asylum and Jack wouldn't stay in. The superintendent sent for the best dog-catcher in town, determined to put Jack's dog under the sod. But the canine catcher had more trouble catching Jack's dog than he would have had catching an eel in a barrel of oil. The dog thought of more ways to outwit the dog-catcher than there were fleas on his back. Jack finally liberated the captives in the dog-catcher's wagon and then the fun started in earnest but Jack saved the entire lot and took them home to his tired mother. Next day Jack was reading the paper when he saw a lost and found advertisement announcing a big reward for the return of a lot of dogs lost from a kennel. Jack recognizes the rescued dogs as the missing pets and returns them to the owner and the reward he gets enables him to buy his mother a new cuckoo clock, a new washboard-and a Rolls Royce.
- Jack takes the overgrown juvenile "Big Boy" with him when he goes to play with the other kids, and tries to get rid of the bumble-prone "Big Boy." However, the latter keeps turning up like a bad penny. At the "Beezer Club," "Big Boy" is too large to get inside the door. A storm comes up and the club-members are trying to get the roof papered before it hits, but a herd of goats eats it as fast as they put it on. Later, "Big Boy" breaks a store window and has to leaves his dog as payment.
- The children of the orphanage are elated over the outing, given to them by Mrs. Bullock, a rich lady charitably inclined. She doesn't know what she's undertaken, though, when she volunteers to be chaperone and guide to the youngsters on their sea trip. She loads them all in her auto, and when she comes to count noses she finds that the party has been swelled by the addition of several miscellaneous animals, pets of the children. She orders them all left behind. But "Pal" decides that he wants an excursion, too. At the dock the kids get into mischief. Pal shows up on the dock and he is thrown off, chased off and locked off the boat, but that does not discourage him. Before the boat sails he climbs the hawser and makes his appearance when the ship puts to sea. The life on the bounding main seem to incite the kids to more mischief, and things are going merrily when a wild flying fish comes aboard and forms an attachment for "Ginger." The rest of the gang go to the rescue with fire-axes and water pails. When the flying fish is finally chased back to the waves the cabins of the ship look like they had been visited by the big wind of 1889. To keep the kids quiet a, traveling man kindly offers them the contents of his sample cases to play with. It is a good thought--except that the cases are full of fireworks and the kids think it is Fourth of July. Rockets ricochet through the cabins. Roman candles roam through the portholes; pinwheels puff and firecrackers crack, until the Captain takes a hand and puts the entire gang to work cleaning the decks. It's been a great day for the orphans, but a greater one for Mrs. Bullock and the ship's crew.
- A married couple with a toddler bicker about waking up in the morning and who will make breakfast.
- A driver on a non-stop race from New York to San Francisco gets detoured to Hollywood, where he winds up working as a publicity man for a movie studio and assigned to revive the career of a beautiful but fading star.
- A bug exterminator mingles in high society.
- Rival schools meet to bury the hatchet with a conciliatory dinner party. Things do not go as planned, escalating into an epic snowball fight.
- The opening is novel and consists of a flirtation between a man's suit of clothes and a lady's dress hanging on a clothes line. Then a little shirt appears and calls a large house-dress to see the flirtation. The house-dress grabs the suit by the collar and the scene continues with Billy being yanked into the house by his wife. Cast out by his wife Billy is seen in a set that looks like a burlesque on the frozen north. Lige, dressed as a cowboy, tries to comfort him. Suddenly a nearby clump of trees part and disclose - the theater manager who tells the boys to get a move on and get the theater lobby fixed up in a hurry, because the owner is coming that evening.
- The score is 1 to 0 and the college freshman saves the day in the 9th inning.
- Garrett and Ryan are on an adventure to see stars in America but they find a gay bar that slows their journey
- Al takes the Overland Limited for the open spaces and on the way encounters the girl, who is much sought by a pair of yegg-men, who would capture her and hold her until her father delivered to them the deed to the rich mine he owns. After much horse- play in which Al thwarts the villains after they have taken the girl, it all comes out right in the end.
- Mrs. Morton, a tireless bargain hunter, hires a young man to act as chauffeur, gardener, butler, and valet to her husband. He takes the job to be near his sweetheart, next door.
- "Big Boy" and his brother, Jackie, are very hungry. There is nothing to eat in the house. Their mother, a wash-woman, is very poor and has no money to buy food or to pay the rent. Jack and "Big Boy" go out to play. They manage to get some coal for the stove and put it in the kitchen. Then they go to the grocery store where Jack works, delivering bundles, to pay a long due grocery bill. "Big Boy" meets Bonnie at the grocery store and starts a flirtation with her. Bonnie is a little rich girl but she finds the attentions of the poor boy quite acceptable. "Big Boy" makes funny faces and cuts up generally. But he nearly wrecks the store in his efforts. Then to make had enough worse, "Big Boy" climbs into the meat display window after his dog and gets thoroughly spanked by the grocer for his efforts. Jack is told to watch a baby in a buggy. The baby crawls out of the carriage to play with "Big Boy" while Jack ties the buggy to the pet dog. A cat comes along and the dog chases it. The grocery keeper and the mother of the child miss the buggy and start a frantic search for it. They enlist the aid of all the police as the search goes on. The dog pulls the buggy all over town, finally landing in a lake. While the frantic mother and groceryman scream for help, "Big Boy" and the baby are looking for the mother. The mother offers fifty dollars reward to anyone who will save her baby. Consequently, when "Big Boy" appears with the child, she gives him the money. "Big Boy" pays the groceryman and the landlord what his mother owes them and he and Jack go out and purchase the makings for a big feast with the remainder of the money.
- Bobby is playing sick to get out of some work his mother has told him to do. He is in bed and the doctor is visiting him. His mother and two nurses are also in attendance for Bobby is the son of the richest family in town. But Bobby is all boy-and out on the lot near his window his boy friends are playing base-ball. Bobby is their pinch hitter, but can not get out to play. The score is tied and the team needs his services and they get a message to him. Bobby gets out of bed, still in his nightgown, races to the plate, swings and knocks a home run and keeps on running back to his bed. The doctor come's in again and notices his heavy breathing and declares that he is in a serious condition. Again the score is tied and again Bobby sneaks out to make the winning run. This time some jealous rival throws a tomato which splatters Bobby's face with the juice and when he gets back in bed the doctor declares that he has the measles. The kids outside continue their game until the ball is finally knocked through the window. "Pal" is sent in to get it but fails-and the kids stream in to recover the ball. They are discovered and quarantined in the house. As Bobby is not sick, they plan a wonderful time. He proposes a Charleston contest and the kids don the clothes of the grown-ups and have their party. Then some one proposes a bathing party in the big bathroom. The bunch disport themselves in the spacious tub until they are discovered. Then it is noticed that the "measles" have all washed off of Bobby's face-and the kids are sent home, sadder and wiser.
- The Van Pelton swimming pool is at first revealed with the children of the aristocracy in all of their glory. Two of the gas house kids happen in and determine upon a similar pool down in their neighborhood. All sorts of contrivances are rigged up with a bathtub for a chute the chutes and the price of a chute one bottle. Mrs. Van Pelton happens in the neighborhood with her child and leaves the latter in the limousine. The child wanders to the swimming pool and is made one of the gang. She is discovered by her adoring mother in such a begrimed condition that only a mother could identify her.
- Lige is assistant lighthouse keeper, under Phil, the grouchy head keeper. Lige's life is miserable, but he has many dreams, not the least of which is that of himself as the gallant captain of a noble ship with hundreds of women as his admirers. On board a passing ship is Estelle, the Princess of Blahstark, who is endeavoring to escape from conspirators who are trying to abduct her and marry her to the pretender to the throne. The Princess overhears their plot and tries to escape by changing clothes with the Chinese steward of the ship. Then Otto, the pretender, forces his attention on the princess and soon discovers that the princess's clothes are on the Chinese steward. The real princess gets in his way and in his rage he throws her overboard, thinking she is a steward. Estelle swims to the lighthouse and is pulled from the water by Lige, who soon discovers that she is a girl. On board the ship, Otto, through his glasses, sees the rescue and tries again to abduct her. He lands at the lighthouse and Lige and Estelle again escape aboard the ship with Otto in close pursuit. Otto chases Lige into the hold where he hides in a sack. The sack is hoisted to the masthead and when Lige takes off the bag he finds himself on the spar. He gets down all right and lands in Estelle's cabin. The ship runs into a terrible storm at sea. In the midst of it, Lige sends for the captain to marry them, but the seas are so high and the ship rolls so that it is impossible to stand. Lige fixes that by pivoting the settee to the all, and while the ship turns hand-springs over and over, he and Estelle are married by the captain.
- A couple and their young son move into a fixer-upper - which they try to fix up with mostly disastrous results.
- Big Boy's mother takes in washing to make ends meet. An irate customer demands money for damaged clothing, but Mother has no money to give her. Big Boy decides to sell his beloved dog and sets out to find someone to buy him. A few different slapstick adventures follow, culminating in Big Boy and Mutt making a mess of a rich family's home. In the scuffle the boy and the dog are separated, and Big Boy returns home in tears. His mother consoles him, and the door swings open, revealing Mutt.
- The happenings center upon the activities of a dentist, whose rival, an eye specialist, holds forth in an office in the same building.
- It is Dorothy's wedding day and the bride, the groom and all the wedding guests are gathered in the church. Earl is lucky man and he has most unwisely chosen for his best man, Glen, his defeated rival in love. There is a hint of trouble during the ceremony, and it appears with a gusto when the couple leaves the church. Glen has employed a strong man to hurl rice at the pair, the rice being in the form of pudding still in the pan. The couple get into a car to drive away. Glen has tied it to a truck and when they start, their auto is pulled to pieces. They finally get started in another car. Earl is so occupied with his newly acquired wife that he fails to see where he is going and runs into a police station where he is fined every cent in his pockets. On foot, they start for their new home. Before they get there, Dorothy's gown is ruined. Arriving at last, they find a telegram waiting for them. It is from the Earl's rich uncle informing him that he is on his way to visit him, and that if he finds him still single he will settle his fortune on the young man. Naturally, Earle is upset having just become a husband. And to make matters worse, the door bell rings soon after they get home, and they look out and find uncle waiting for them to open the door. Dorothy slips into the clothes of a little girl, pretending to be the neighbor's child. She impersonates the child all too well and has the uncle half crazy with her pranks before he is thoroughly convinced that she is just a child. But Glen, the disgruntled lover, appears on the scene and Dorothy is nearly exposed. She uses her wits, and gets even with him until her wig comes off. When the uncle sees how he has been deceived he is furious. But finally he sees the humor of the situation and forgives the newlyweds and promises Earl his share of his fortune.
- The De Peysters start on a fishing party with a pair of gallant suitors offering their flivvers as a means of conveyance. Eventually they arrive at their destination where Lige's rival attempts to run off with Daisy in a fast motor boat. He is pursued by Lige and the girl's parents and manages to effect a rescue after much discomfort to himself and other members of the party.
- Only the first reel is known to survive. Bill and Jennie marry over his aunt's objections. As the couple leaves on their honeymoon, his aunt shows up to chaperon. A luggage mix-up causes jealousy and suspicion.
- The hick fire brigade is seen practicing its stuff while a real fire takes place in the building. They are too busy, however, to be disturbed. Cliff enters as the hero and covers himself with glory, soot and burnt clothing.
- The bank messenger (Al St. John) is entrusted with the delivery of a bag of bonds to the home of the banker. The bonds are sought by a pair of crooks. All three arrive at the height of a lawn party and the crooks steal a valuable necklace from one of the guests. They slip it into Al's pocket and then substitute a black bag containing a bomb for the original package of bonds. Al eventually delivers both the necklace and the bonds after a series of episodes in which the crooks are bested.
- A boy is sent to his society aunt, where his pals join him and make a mess of the place.
- In a road race, nothing can stop the "tin can on wheels" that Lige is driving.
- Two aspiring marksmen take lesson in a shooting gallery with make-believe marshes as the background. Their ability stays at zero while they manager to demolish the shooting gallery. What they have left standing is undone by the man in the studio below them who is trying to attach a gas-light fixture to the ceiling.
- Eddie is the favorite son while George is only the hired hand on the farm. But that does not prevent them from staging an endurance contest at eating cakes for breakfast. Eddie finally gives up in despair, and goes outside to loaf. George has other ideas on the subject and finally puts him to work. Loafing again, Eddie is buried beneath a pile of hay by George. Of course, George does not know this and is startled by the moving hay. A goat gets tangled up in the hay and returns the compliment when George jabs it with a pitchfork. Eddie is blamed and George starts chasing the youngster. The chase leads to a colored woman hanging clothes in the yard. She is pushed into the tub. Then the two start throwing the freshly washed clothes at each other. When they have ruined the day's washing, the colored woman promptly spanks Eddie.