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- Buster and Tige go out in a toy sedan and are accidentally caught in a dog catcher's net and finally break a hydrant; the force of the water lifts the little car into the air. They aid Buster's sweetheart, Mary Jane to get rid of a troublesome tooth by means of a sky rocket, and she takes them to the home of her father where there is a meeting of spiritualists. This is pie for Buster, who calls the gang together and they impersonate spooks of all kinds. On being discovered, Buster dresses all the kids like himself and has the leading spiritualist think he is actually "seeing things" as Buster seems to be in several places at once. As is frequently the case with Buster, he ends by getting spanked and making another resolution.
- The love affairs of a fat garage proprietor who finally wins the tiny lady of his choice in a reckless automobile race.
- Edna is a slavey in a boardinghouse. She has a good time when she sleeps - on the floor, rolled up in a carpet, with a phonograph playing on her chest. The landlady pays her $2 a week and thinks it is too much. The star boarder loves Edna, but does not pay his rent. When the landlady comes in through the door, the boarder pops out through the window. He slips downstairs to help Edna dry dishes. Then he goes with her to the market. She gives him her bundles. He drops them, falls over them, bumps, trips and finally manages to get home with them. Edna spies an ad which calls for an athletic instructor. She takes him with her. The fat gym owner wants Edna and gives the boarder a sock in the eye to let him know that he is not wanted. Edna insists that he be hired. Then it is that the boarder has the time of his life, pulling a porous-plaster from his boss' back, and also massaging him. The boss takes a dislike to him and chases him all over the gym. Edna, meanwhile, is in gym togs doing gym tricks with the girls. The men battle in the swimming pool, on the trapeze, on an upper runway, and over the gym floor. Back in the pool again, the boarder lands on his boss' neck and sticks, thumping him with a rolling-pin for a grand and glorious victory.
- Edna, a winsome country lassie, leaves home to seek her fortune in the big city. Her plump sweetie takes her to the train, tying his horse to the rear coach. When he returns he finds his horse has been jerked out of the harness. Edna discovers the horse in town and mails it back to him. He gets a flivver and goes to town. She, meanwhile, gets a job in a jazzy cabaret. Her sweetie tries to enter in his countrified clothes and is bounced. He repeats the attempt and is repeatedly bounced. Suddenly he beholds his sweetie doing a feature dance. He makes for her. The proprietor chases him around the pool. Edna appears and refuses to leave with him, telling him that she is married to the proprietor.
- Alice is the daughter of a fisherman. She gathers herring to support her family. Alice's folks are worshipers of the cuckoo clock. Even the dog bows his head in prayer when the cuckoo cuckoos. Joe, a sailor, loves Alice. He calls on her at midnight, and takes her to a cabaret. While there, a sea captain falls in love with Alice, and strange things come to pass when Alice sees the hula hula dancers. Joe takes Alice home under great difficulties Alice and Joe are happily married and are proprietors of a lunch room. Undaunted by his previously unsuccessful attempts the sea captain is still bent on possessing Alice, and lays his plans to kidnap her. Alice is kidnapped, and is placed on a sea going vessel. Just as Joe comes home. He pursues the yacht with his billowy sail boat. Just as he is about to catch the vessel he is lassoed and left mercilessly to drown. Instead, Joe pulls himself up on the rope and outs his way in through the boat. Meanwhile, Alice is having her troubles trying to keep the captain out of her stateroom. Joe rescues Alice, and there follows a lively boat chase with marines, patrol boats, etc. Alice and Joe manage to destroy the lighthouse in which the captain and his crew sought to shelter themselves. A novel ending follows.
- The boys are spending their vacation on the farm of their hard-hearted Uncle, who is a radio enthusiast, with a dislike for dogs and children. Naturally, their pranks irritate him, especially when listening in on his radio apparatus he hears the boys instructing Brownie to swipe some pies off the kitchen window-sill. Uncle starts out to punish the boys, but finds that it is more difficult to catch them than he expected, especially since Brownie seems to have human intelligence in preventing the grown man from getting near enough his pals to do them harm. The boys and the dog find new friends, who join in their fun, with the result that the vacation is a success after all.
- Little Jack is sent to the market by his mother to sell the old cow and while there turns it over to an unscrupulous person for a bag of beans. When Little Jack arrives home the mother, upon seeing what Jack has received for the old family cow, throws the beans into the back yard. The next morning a big tree, reaching into the skies, has grown where the beans were thrown. Little Jack climbs this tree and reaches the kingdom of the terrible giant. After a series of very dangerous adventures, Little Jack kills the giant.
- Baby Peggy as the mischievous child of doting and fussy parents.
- Brownie, the Dog, goes from the poorhouse to penthouse as doggie caretaker to an infant who's ejected from his lower class household. Brownie switches places with a millionaire's dog where his street smarts turn out to be a mixed blessing.
- Lillian who owns a cat and dog store, "cans" Charlie, her clerk, when in an altercation with a street sweeper, a brick breaks the front window of the shop. Charlie then gets a job to post bills announcing a "Dog Show" in the Auditorium with $10,000 in cash prizes. While posting the bills, he notices Brownie and a pup and decides to enter pup for a prize. The dog show is a gala event. Lillian also enters a dog, her favorite poodle. She snubs Charlie when she sees him. Lillian's poodle is picked as a blue ribbon winner. Brownie grabs hold of him and hides him, substituting the pup in his stall. Villains enter to steal the prize dog and steal the pup. When Lillian comes to the dog's stall she finds him gone and is frantic Brownie produces the poodle for her and Lillian is overjoyed with Brownie and Charlie, his owner. Thus Charlie and Lillian are brought together again. The directors of the show decide that Brownie is a clever dog and award him first prize. Then Charlie and Lillian, being on an equal footing, get married and all seems to be well with them.
- This is the story of the heartless mother whose burdens are such that she would be rid of her two children. The henpecked father is compelled to take them to the woods and there lose them. Gretel drops bread-crumbs to find her way home, but wild-fowl eat the crumbs and they are truly lost. The babes wander to the home of a witch, who would fatten them up to make ginger-bread of them. As they are about to be thrown into the blazing furnace Peggy outwits the witch, and, in turn, the witch is thrust into the roaring flames, as the mother, repentant, heads the neighbors in the work of rescue.
- An aspiring writer chases after a pair of crooks when her handbag is taken.
- Alice appears as Minnie Grabit, just released from prison. She poses as a Salvation Army girl long enough to collect loose change, then later becomes a nurse and finally a servant girl. The incidents are of the knockabout sort, and the eccentric characterizations are funny.
- Buddy, a messenger boy, is sent to deliver a message to a famous Pirate's grandson. Buddy encounters two men of mystery on his errand. Unknown to him they exchange the message for one containing a warning that death will follow unless certain conditions are met by a certain time. On his arrival at the house things start to happen. The mysterious strangers appear, trap doors open and shut mysteriously, secret papers telling the whereabouts of a vast fortune concealed in the house are revealed and disappear through one spooky medium after another. Eventually Buddy rescues the papers and captures the intruders.
- Alice visits her sweetheart Hughie at his "home with the iron windows."
- A pair of destitute artists are in arrears in their rent and bound by necessity to get themselves out of hock. They endeavor to accomplish this indirectly through the rescue of a maiden from a bunch of villains on her father's yacht. She poses for them and father becomes interested in a number of pictures they have "borrowed."' The rightful owner puts in an appearance just at the wrong time and the pair are captured after the characteristic chase of the short comedy.
- Mr. and Mrs. Sweettooth were basking in the sunshine in Goofers Park. Their neighbors were having, a friendly spat in another part of the park. Philip de Glass the neighbor, had a hobby all his own of which he is about to par-take, when a policeman comes along and helps the good cause along. Both wives tire of sitting and start scrapping with their husbands. The husbands run away and both meet at the lake, where a pretty nurse girl starts a flirtation with them. She runs to the lake and tells them that the one that recovers the rose which she has thrown into the lake, can have her hand. While they are both straggling to get the rose, the cop, who is the nurse-girl's regular sweetheart, comes along. Great excitement follows and the cop throws them both out of the park. They land on a flivver which drives them right into a huge explosion and they go up into the air. In the meantime, the wives have made the acquaintance of Prof. Jim-Jam, whose specialty is shimmie-shaking. He has a class of beautiful girls whom he is supposed to introduce to a well known dancer that afternoon. He demonstrates to the wives a few steps and makes them eager to learn the new dance. The Powder Puff High School pupils are already in costumes awaiting for the big fete of the afternoon. They are prettily draped in veils, etc., and then some, when Philip De Glass and his friend land in the park near (where the girls are awaiting the arrival of the Professor and his friend. They discover some animal skins and when they find that their clothes are torn to pieces, they don the animal skins and then go out to the lawn, and the girls thinking they are the new Professor and his guest, proceed to entertain them with fancy steps. They are having a glorious time when suddenly the real Professor and the wives appear on the scene. Lots of funny situations follow and pretty effects are seen on the lawn.
- On the brink of starvation, and with the landlady at her heels for the room rent, Edna receives word from her lawyer that her grandfather's estate has been settled. The crooked lawyer wants to gain possession of the dilapidated estate of her grandfather, but she suspects his over eagerness and refuses to sell. She goes to the old homestead whence she has been preceded by the lawyer's henchmen, who perpetrate a reign of terror by simulating spooks in an effort to frighten her into selling. She battles the spooks and a mysterious black robed figure helps her until the ghosts are driven out. The rescuer turns out to be the lawyer's assistant, who took pity on the persecuted maiden and fell in love with her at first sight. The feeling is mutual.
- Hulda is a Dutch clog dancer stowaway who gets a job in a big city cabaret.
- Wanda appears as a plain-Jane office girl who manages to mess things up generally. The boss tries to kiss her and she wrecks his office; then in seeking to capture a frog she manages to break up nearly everything in the outer office. After hours she meets a sheik and it is love at first sight. Inviting him home she tries to make him jealous by inviting a lot of fellows. He retaliates by luring them to the window disguised as a vamp and pitching them out and then surrounding himself with chorus girls. Wanda then jumps off a building in despair but lands on a flag pole that breaks and sticks in the ground. She next tries driving an auto blindfolded, runs into the hero's car and in the smash both are thrown on a balcony where they make-up and pull the Romeo and Juliet stuff.
- A street urchin is trying to survive on her own, getting into mischief along the way.