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- The last Selig Polyscope Company film produced was "Pioneer Days," based on the Fort Dearborn Massacre. It was filmed on location in Wilmette, Illinois.
- Max refuses to let his niece marry Dick, because he says Dick is not a moral fellow. Max proceeds to make love to the maid. He receives a letter and, not having his spectacles, has his niece read its contents. Some one threatens to beat him up for being a "woman chaser.'' Max is frightened. A bum comes to see him, but his niece says her uncle left for Europe - to be gone five years. Dick arrives and is told that the niece can't marry him, so he decides to kill himself and rushes to the drug store for poison. Max is getting drunk and very flirtatious. Terrified at Dick's threat, his girl takes the bottle to tell Max about it. She hides the poison, after tearing off the label and goes back to Dick. Max discovers the bottle and takes a drink, which causes him to cough. The niece rushes out. Seeing the bottle, she yells that Max has drunk poison. Dick is dumbfounded. Max rushes out, partially dressed. He snatches a bottle of milk from a wagon, but the milkman gives chase. A crowd carries Max to a doctor's house, where the doctor prepares to use the stomach pump. But the drug clerk rushes in to tell them that he gave Dick the wrong stuff - ipecac instead of poison.
- Vic is entrusted with a new explosive packed in egg shells to deliver to the government. On the journey an heiress he meets gets his valise and puts the eggs in an incubator when she gets home. Vic arrives too late to prevent the explosion. Vic tries to earn five dollars to send a cable for money when he loses his valise. He wears a dress suit with a tailor's advertisement on the back. The heiress pretends to return his eggs to him, but really substitutes real eggs, which are hatched when he opens his valise in the government office.
- The story of a woman whose youthful loveliness and charm begin to succumb to the ravages of time and whose soul surmounts the jealousies and ambitions of prestige to become interested in the shadowed lives of the unfortunate, so that they can enjoy what the generosity of unselfish wealth can bring to them. In the first part a reminiscent passage is very well done. The heroine sees the events of her past life enacted in the fireplace. Her lover goes to hunt in the jungle. He is attacked and wounded by a tiger. He recovers. Camels and elephants figure In the jungle scenes, with a very interesting tiger.
- The president of the Anti-Sin League has called a meeting to discuss the shortness of bathing suits. Her right-hand man is the Deacon. He is sent to get evidence, but falters upon seeing divers types of loveliness which the bathing suits adorn. The president is a fire-brand and takes her fight to the Police Judge. She convinces him the short-skirted suit must go. The Deacon is observed by the president and determines to teach him a lesson. Donning a bathing suit with a long skirt, she veils her face and starts to lure the Deacon. The end of the yarn with which the bathing suit was made becomes entangled on a nail and the skirt is unraveled to an alarming shortness by the time she is seen by the Deacon. He follows and she proposes a boat ride. They land on an island, where she discloses her identity and maroons the Deacon. While waiting she is run down by the police boat, searching for violators of the new law, and is arrested and locked up for ninety days. Remembering the Deacon, she manages to escape disguised as a policeman and arrives in time to take the penitent Deacon aboard her boat.
- Lemuel Tidd, chief of police, and Ezekiel Slover, chief of the fire department, are bitter rivals for the hand of Amy Grey. The two resort to all manner of tricks and deceptions in order to gain an advantage. When fire breaks out in Punktown, the fire department saves the chief of police in a marvelous manner and saves Amy Grey by a still more wonderful feat, by sliding down a stream of water from the fire hose. After both the chiefs have extended themselves to the limit, they drag themselves away from the noise and confusion to resume their listless lives and to give their future strictly to the duties of their respective offices namely, caring for the safety and happiness of Punktown.
- Billy Barlow sends Sally a note inviting her to go motoring but drops it, and his sister Betty puts it in his overcoat,. Billy finds Sally out, and thinks she does not love him. Meantime Bob Temple and Grace Gilmore have planned to elope and ask Billy to help them. On the night of the elopement Sally gives a stag party for her girlfriends and Betty provides herself and several others with clothes from her brother's wardrobe. Billy is astonished to find his clothes gone. Finding Betty's invitation to the stag party he sees a chance of getting even with Sally and phones the police a description of the clothes, saying the thieves are at Sally's house. He starts out in his pajamas and overcoat, but is arrested for speeding. He phones Bob to bring him some clothes. Meantime the police arrive at Sally's and they are all brought to the station house. Billy has been released, and hearing of the raid, he and Bob race to the station house. Explanations follow and Bob, Grace and Billy hasten to the minister's, Grace still wearing male clothing. At the depot Grace and Bob pick up the wrong suit case and discover on their arrival at the hotel that Grace has a bag full of men's clothes while Bob has the bag containing Billy's pajamas. After mutual explanations, Billy and Sally race to the minister's and are married.
- "You're under arrest. Stop!" "But this is a physician," Ryde explains. "Wife's ill." The cop becomes suspicious. He demands to see friend wife. Syx has to carry the bluff through and Ryde gets into the wife's bed. The cop sees the form in bed (and something else), which be believes is a baby. The cop demands that he be allowed to get the wife's signature. Ryde has resumed his own clothes and hurries to borrow "a wife." He secures his fiancée, who happens to be passing, gets her upstairs and into the bed. The cop is satisfied. BUT - when he has gone, the real wife returns, and the girl is still in the house. After considerable excitement and sundry narrow escapes she meets the girl and finds her to be an old friend, the fiancée of her hubby's friend. All, thenceforth, is well with the Syx's and affairs are amicably settled.