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- Car racer Burn 'em Up Barnes, son of a wealthy manufacturer, leaves home to make his own way in the world. After being robbed by hoodlums, Barnes joins a group of hobos who take him in and show him the carefree life.
- Reever McCall, an infamous forger, is on the run from the police with his daughter Saidee. He asks his friend, a former criminal named Steve Cline, for help. Cline, whose brother was killed by William Mallory, the detective chasing McCall, agrees. Several years later, while serving as a nurse during the war, Saidee falls in love with Phil Logan, a patient of hers who is also the son of the governor of her state. After the war Mallory, now a big shot in state politics, gives a banquet for the Governor. Mallory discovers Saidee's identity and demands that she marry him in exchange for keeping quiet about her past. Complications ensue.
- A young man is bet $100,000 that his famous luck can hold out and he can make that sum in one year's time, literally starting with nothing. He proceeds to Pennsylvania, where prize fight winnings are used to build a new town.
- Reporter Jimmy Munroe is writing an article on "the average woman". He meets Sally Whipple in the library and chooses her as a likely subject, following her around to gather material for his article, and eventually falls in love with her. Her father, Judge Whipple, doesn't like it; he has Jimmy arrested and allows him to see Sally only once a week. Meanwhile, disreputable businessman Van Alten is after Sally, and tries to pressure her into marrying him by threatening to release letters he says will embarrass her father.
- Impulsive flapper Elizabeth Winthrop, rebels against her parents and moves to New York after breaking with her fiance, Clayton Webster. Hugo Von Strohm, a wealthy playboy, procures Elizabeth a job as a chorus dancer and secretly pays her salary. After he tries to seduce her, Elizabeth sees through his kindnesses and returns to her parents and Clayton.
- A young man gains possession of a letter of introduction intended for someone else and on the strength of it proceeds to get a job. He manages to cause any number of complications through his well-meant efforts, which provide the basis for a number of ingenious gags. Raymond McKee appears as "the nuisance" in question, with Mary Anderson opposite as the boss's daughter. Charles Murray appears as the father, and is good for a number of laughs with his characteristic business.
- When a bashful suitor attempts to ask father, who is a judge, he is mistaken for a man who is seeking to get revenge.
- Torchy's girl is fascinated by an East Side pug, who has rescued her. Johnny, to discredit his rival, goes to the Tenderloin in search of someone who will defeat the pugilist and allow him (Johnny) to take the credit. In the underworld, babies play with revolvers, and dogs eat iron chains from the fire hydrants. It is a tough place, and Johnny is just as tough. He finds a substitute, who is to fight as "the masked marvel," but he is injured at the last moment, and Johnny must fight himself. The two go at it in all realism, until Johnny manages to squirt some ether in his rival's face. The rest is easy.
- An inquiring reporter, attempting to solve a series of mysterious hotel robberies, finds that the robber is a bogus baron who is being lavishly entertained by the new-rich parents of his sweetheart.
- Torchy stages a spectacular play against interfering folks seeking to prevent the marriage of a European prince to his American sweetheart.
- A young married couple's hopes of future happiness are based on expectations of inheriting "uncle's" fortune.
- Johnny is presented with a chance on an automobile about to be raffled. His is the lucky number, but the wind comes along at the crucial moment and blows it out of the window. From then on we follow Johnny's difficulties in recovering it.
- Sure-Fire Flint, an energetic chap just returned from wartime military service, meets June De Lanni, the girl of his dreams, while working as a cabdriver and busboy. Her father gives Flint a job in his factory, but Dipley Poole, who hoped to marry June, becomes jealous of Flint's success and attempts to rob the company safe. June is trapped in the safe, but after a series of adventures, Flint arrives in time to rescue her.
- Torchy endeavors to play Cupid when a couple plan to elope.
- Reilly's wife loves dogs and Reilly doesn't, so Reilly makes numerous efforts to do away with the fuzzy-haired pup.
- Torchy is a lunch wagon manager.
- Torchy is detailed as a deputy sheriff and in chasing a crook becomes entangled in the robbery of some bonds. He manages to catch the thief but only after he himself has mistakenly been heralded as the real robber.
- A Kentucky mountain feud is enhanced by the further complications of a government raid on the moonshine still contested for between the two rival Kentucky clans.
- Driven by a careless act in his youth, King Rudolph dons a disguise and exacts his own idea of justice in the slums of Paris.
- A photograph of Pa Hinkle, taken in his bachelor days with a bathing girl siren, is rather compromising, and the action centers around his efforts to regain this photo. Jimmie, as the suitor of his daughter Mary, gains possession of the photo, and holds it over the father's head.
- Torchy investigates a sanitarium, where cement is substituted for the mud bath, and the guests are given milk from a cow that has eaten a pail of home brew mash, with alarming effects. Johnny finally saves Vee from the villain and they sail away in a wheel chair equipped with a sail.
- Torchy's boss sends him to some kennels to bring home a thoroughbred puppy. In the meantime kidnappers get busy on Riverside Drive and make off with a child. The criminals hide the child in the suitcase that contained the dog and in this way Torchy inherits the child. After many adventures the baby is finally returned to its parents.
- When Joe Grantwood embezzles money, his half-brother Steve Martin takes the fall for it to spare his mother the embarrassment and shame, and leaves town to lead the life of a hobo. When he returns years later he discovers that his former sweetheart is now the widowed mother of a young son. He refuses a bribe offered by his stepbrother, and when Joe is murdered, Steve finds himself accused of it.
- "Torchy" is a pert office boy. He secures his first situation by sending all other applicants for it to the story below and assumes that he is already hired. He has attracted the attention of the boss, who is looking for a live boy, and this saves him from being fired at once. He shows the boss how to wake up a lazy girl at a telephone switch board and this constitutes his first day's work. He manages to get the evening job of a check boy at a fashionable restaurant and dancing cabaret. While engaged in checking the wraps of guests and picking up tips, he becomes interested in an impulsive young lady who is bored by conventions and looking around for something new. "Torchy" elects to dance with her, but he cannot go on the floor in his uniform. He snatches off the dress coat and waistcoat of a terrified young man and sails out on the dancing floor with the venturesome young lady. Their dance is different - it is the sensation of the evening - but the young lady's mother intervenes and "Torchy" is sent back to his job in the cloak room. When the evening is over, he is seen riding on the rear axle of a limousine, puffing a cigarette, murmuring "home James."
- The boss has Torchy break in new shoes for him.
- Torchy attempts to facilitate the elopement of a friend. Loss of the license, false arrest, divers adventures in a bakery and intricate happenings in a jail figure in the action.
- Torchy's girl is kidnapped by the "Coo Coo Clan," when he had staged a kidnapping stunt himself to win her favor, and he is badly handled by the gang when he follows them into a deserted house.