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- Nicholas Dolph must balance secretly working for Santa and raising his 7-year-old daughter alone. When a bully at school meanly chronicles to her that Santa isn't real, Nick tries to restore her belief while avoiding his boss' wrath.
- An actor, Julian Lorraine (J. Frank Glendon), mistakenly believes his wife Viola Lorraine (Alice Day) has been unfaithful. Complications and tears and scorn follow.
- A city girl revenuer spies on illegal whiskey making in the hills.
- The story of a wealthy young flapper, Theodora Bland (Pauline Garon), and the amorous adventures and misadventures she has after being expelled from a fashionable and costly east-coast boarding school.
- John Carver looked through the window of a little church in the North woods and saw the woman who had once been his own being made the wife of Julio Cumberland, the most prosperous citizen in the village. He is pursued by Private Dick Osborne, of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, the lover of Nan's new stepdaughter, who recognizes the uninvited guest and knows Nan's story. Julio regards the conferences of his bride and Dick with jealous suspicion, and while spied upon by the criminal, attacks the officer, leaving him unconscious. Later the bride is found dead, and suspicion points to the officer as her murderer. John is captured and admits his guilt only when Dorothy prevails upon him to save the happiness of herself and the officer by confessing the crime.
- Megan and Gilbert are happily married and expect to be together for life, but an argument over an insignificant issue gets out of control and results in a divorce. Years later they happen to meet at a summer resort, where Gilbert is staying with his new wife Viola and Megan is there as a companion to a rich old woman.
- Percie and Ferdie answer an ad for barbers, and to be sure of the job they get there in the middle of the night, sleeping on the steps of the shop. They get the jobs, and the balance of the reel is a burlesque of the daily happenings in a barber shop. It's all good stuff, with a succession of new bits of business. The second reel find the boys preparing to attend Miss Millionbucks' ball. They go attired in stolen uniforms, passing as two friends of the young lady's father. Of course the rightful two arrive and show the boys up. At the moment they are about to be shot for impersonating officers, they wake up - still in front of the barber shop, and the jobs taken.
- A priest is trying to help a poor family when nearby the father is hit on the head by a criminal who then throws him off a bridge into the water below. The priest administers Last Rites then seeks to help the family and find the murderer.
- An Eastern girl goes West with her brother and meets a bully, who is also a crook. She slaps his face. He falls in love with her and watches her at a distance while she is painting a picture. After saving her brother, who is accused of a mail robbery, and, capturing the culprits, he wins her love.
- Broadway star Fay Leslie (Anna Q. Nilsson) turns down her dancing partner, Paul Atkins (Earle Foxe), partner, and instead marries Don Hampton (Freeman Wood), a wealthy socialite. She soon finds herself rejected by her husband's snobbish family. Her problems grow larger when Paul re-enters her life as a guest at a party thrown for the newly-weds.
- The editor of a newspaper, playing a prank on Bill, inserts a notice in his sheet to the effect that a wealthy bachelor would welcome a leap year proposal. Jones' picture is shown above the item and soon he is besieged by a bevy of women of all sorts. He finally weds the maid who has paid no attention to the story and who had previously spurned his offer.
- An armament king's wife kills herself to save her MP lover from a divorce scandal.
- Orphan twins found in a snowstorm by Father Ormounde are adopted from a Montreal orphanage by an officer of the Northwest Mounted Police and Pierre Maupome, a leader of desperadoes. Twenty years later, one of them, "Bad" Maupome, has become leader of a gang of thieves, and the other, John, has become a lieutenant in the Northwest Mounted Police. John meets Patricia Graham and falls in love with her after rescuing her from a forest fire. Meanwhile, having directed the looting of an Indian village, "Bad" goes to De Brac's trading post and roughs up the trader when he objects to his seeing his daughter; however, the infatuated Rosa goes to "Bad's" cabin where Father Ormounde discloses the bandit's identity. Maupome steals a police uniform and robs and wounds Miss Graham's father. John is arrested, but he escapes and trails his brother, who is killed by a falling tree in a storm. John is cleared by the girl's testimony, and they are happy together.
- A poodle takes to the ozone when a mischievous youngster ties him to a group of toy balloons, and Percy and Ferdie are put through their paces when they attempt to win a pretty girl's reward of $100 for rescuing her pup from the air.
- Dick Alden, a 12-year-old boy mistreated by his stepfather and picked on by the other residents of his village, is wrongly accused of setting fire to the local schoolhouse. He runs away but vows to take his revenge on the village. Years later he gets his chance when he returns to take over the mill he has inherited--he plans to close it down, which would throw most of the people out of work and destroy the economy. However, he runs into someone from his past that could put a halt to his plans.
- Dann Mulvey (William Scott), just released from prison, is falsely accused of murder. The real culprit is the least-suspected person, who makes a deathbed confession.
- Old Hank Lewis has been digging for years for gold, without success. The heroine's father is about to foreclose a mortgage on the old man, having discovered that there is gold on his land. Jack Kelly discovers the plot and saves Lewis' property for him, and after being put in all wrong with his girl, through the schemes of the villain, finally clears himself and wins her.
- After attempting to succeed in his father-in-law's ,Old Blind Goring (Mitchell Lewis), fishing business, Gordon Gray (Forrest Stanley) persuades his wife, Rena (Miriam Cooper), to return to his home and wealthy family, where she learns from Gordon's aunt, Mrs. Gray (Kate Lester), to become a lady.
- A likable boy with a proclivity for gambling and fighting, Ben Warman, alienates the owner of a saloon in a Western mining town by helping a girl remove her drunken father from the premises. In so doing he makes a friend of the Woman, a young schoolteacher who makes Ben promise to give up his vices. Their romance is endangered, however, by the arrival of an Eastern girl, who takes a fancy to Ben, and her brother, who falls for the schoolteacher. The Easterners see that the schoolteacher gets false reports of the cause of Ben's fights, and the schoolteacher leaves for the East to study music. The saloon owner, enlisting the aid of an adventuress, hatches a plan to defraud Ben of a mine claim, but the schoolteacher returns in time to foil the scheme and be reunited with Ben.
- A beautiful singer goes to Paris, marries unhappily, wins fame and fortune through her voice and finally achieves happiness for herself.
- At a hotel where the boys are detectives, the hotel manager has in his possession a pearl necklace that is wanted by the blackhand gang. The necklace is passed on to one of the guests and Percy tries to get it back.
- The boys are broke, as usual, and they come to a studio looking for work, where they always get in the wrong place at the wrong time and break up every scene.
- A train of prairie schooners crosses "The Mormon Trail" in the days of the early West. Kate Tyler is on the way to meet her sweetheart, Jim. Jim's brother Jack leaves the train and that night it is held up. Jack is suspected and he gives himself up when he finds that his brother was the robber, in partnership with the owner of the train. Jack is about to be hung by the enraged travelers when Jim, dying from a gun wound, confesses, and Jack wins Kate, whom he has loved all the time.
- Percy and Ferdie try to be automobile salesmen with their usual bad luck, in fact, they successively become doctors, lawyers and detectives.