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- Louise gets hired as a maid for a swank society party, but the it's really a set up for a bunch of tough jewel robbers. She gets hold of the swag and a big slapstick chase along a highway and beach ensues.
- 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.
- The day's takings from a shop are stolen and an employee gives chase to catch the crooks.
- A foreigner with a tenuous grasp of English rides his burro into town just as cattle rustlers are planning to make off with the herd. The stranger helps Al capture the rustlers and rescue a damsel in distress.
- 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.
- Al, a messenger boy, inherits a dilapidated street car company and tries to run it against the opposition of a villainous competitor.
- 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.
- A millionaire, alone in his big house except for his servants, receives a letter notifying him that his grandson, Big Boy, has been cared for by a poor family ever since his birth and that the law now demands that he, as the only living relative of the child, assume the care of it. The rich man protests, but it is the law, he sends his chauffeur and his secretary-butler for the infant. Big Boy is found at the widow's home, surrounded by his friends, the widow's children. When he is told that he must go to his grandfather's house to live he is heart-broken. He kisses all his playmates farewell, not forgetting his animal friends-the cows, chickens and the pigs. It is a real blow when he is told that he must leave Mutt, his dog, behind. But Mutt outwits everybody and steals a ride on the top of the big car. He is discovered and thrown off, only to catch a ride on the rear bumpers. When they arrive at the millionaire's home, the dog is thickly covered with dust and soot from the exhaust of the car. Big Boy angers his grandpa first by accidentally stepping inside his silk hat. Then he gets tangled up in the hat rack and has to cry for help. The millionaire regards the child coldly but is very nearly won by Big Boy's smile when the dog enters. Mutt jumps into grandpa's lap, covering him with dust and soot, and then chases the parrot all over the house. This soon has the house in an uproar and throws his grandfather into a terrible mood. Big Boy follows him, tracking soot and mud all over the rugs and carpets, throwing the servant into a rage. But again the millionaire's heart is softened by the child, and the picture closes with Big Boy safely established as a member of the household.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Jackie and Tom are assistants in a nursery. Their job is to take care of the babies which tired mothers leave there while doing their shopping. Their duties are numerous, for the nursery is equipped with cubby-holes in which each baby is stored and a machine which bathes and dresses the infants. -The Mayor lives next door to the nursery and the noise and the tricks which Jack and Tom play on him annoys him so that he decides to spend the rest of the summer at Restwell Springs. Hardly has he become settled there before the nursery forces, accompanied by a few of the babies, arrive on the scene. Jack and Tom don't lose any time in starting mischief. Finally the Mayor in desperation calls the council together and proposes an ordinance prohibiting babies being born under twenty years of age. Their deliberations are interrupted by the kids, who have succeeded In substituting a hornet's nest for a roast and the hornets successfully break up the meeting. The Mayor chases the kids into the woods. Determined on revenge they procure a bear skin and attempt to frighten the Mayor who sees through the trick and lays for them with his cane. But a real bear emerges from the woods and chases the Mayor back to the hotel. The sick guests of the sanitarium suddenly regain their health and discard wheelchairs and crutches in a wild scramble for safety. The bear follows and soon clears out the hotel. Jackie and Tom are enjoying the fun hugely when the bear catches sight of them. They climb into their daschund-o-mobile but the dog refuses to pull until he sees the bear headed for them and then he dashes off down the road at express-train speed.
- A gang of youngsters proceed to tear up the neighborhood with their mischief.
- Garrett and Ryan are on an adventure to see stars in America but they find a gay bar that slows their journey
- Graves has a model come and demonstrate lingerie at his office, thinking of buying a birthday gift for his overly jealous wife. Said wife appears at the wrong moment, and the model has to go to extreme measures to avoid being caught.
- The Duff family shares a duplex bungalow with a police sergeant and his wife. While the Duffs endure a series of trials in making a home and finding ways to relax, the policeman is worried about tracking down Gypsy Joe and his gang. Soon, everyone involved meets up under unlikely and hazardous circumstances.
- A young man and a young woman run into each other at a train station after their respective dates stand them up.
- Exasperated by his playboy son, a wealthy man sends him to Canada to become a Royal Canadian Mountie, in hopes that the young man will learn something about life.
- After being ejected from his boarding house, Lige gets a job at an automotive school, and there isn't much left of the garage or cars in the neighborhood after he gets through teaching a girl to drive.
- Rival schools meet to bury the hatchet with a conciliatory dinner party. Things do not go as planned, escalating into an epic snowball fight.