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- The love affairs of a fat garage proprietor who finally wins the tiny lady of his choice in a reckless automobile race.
- Buster and Tige are in bed asleep. A fly hectors the dog, who brushes it away. It lights on Buster's face. The dog smashes it with his paw. A policeman is at the window getting coffee from the cook. Buster, with the aid of stilts, impersonates a tall cop, goes to the window and introduces himself as the new roundsman. She serves him pie. The dog bites at the stilts, throwing him out of balance and catapulting the pie into the cook's face. Another custard pie covers the dog, who washes himself -at a fountain. The schoolmaster scolds Buster when he comes to school late. Tige sneaks in and sits beside Buster while the teacher snoozes. When discovered, the teacher throws him out, but he gets in again. A little boy at the next desk munches a piece of Limburger cheese which nauseates Tige. The dog and cheese are thrown out again. The teacher calls Buster to the desk and orders him to give him what he has in his hand. Buster slips a giant cracker under the chair, which explodes when the teacher sits down. Tige runs around with the cheese in his mouth, and as he passes beneath a board fence all the birds on the fence drop dead. For revenge on the teacher he jumps into the window of the school with the Limburger throwing the place into a furor.
- 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.
- Alice is the scullion in a kitchen and around the house. Although loved by the fat cook and the iceman, she elopes with the son of the house. Action becomes faster and soon furious after the marriage. The cook gets into a balloon, whose anchor picks up folks and drops them without regard to their dignity or anatomy. Then the hook-anchor picks up the house containing the bride and groom. The house and its contents fly all over the countryside to a whirlwind finish.
- Buster Brown gets upset when Mary Jane invites him to a party and gives all her attention to a new boy. Mary Jane is upset because Buster got upset. Tige sets out to get Buster back in Mary Jane's good graces. A piece of tobacco in a candy sack seems like a good idea.
- Alice has a job as a cleaner in her step-father's garage; and, being in love with her co-worker, a machinist, who in turn is lured away by a vampire of the worst character, Alice tries suicide. She takes gas, inflates and floats away through the roof. Alice has a fairly poor time of it all the way through, although right finally does manage to triumph; by a hair's breadth.
- Buster, Mary Jane and Tige engage in a game of indoor golf, smashing windows, mirrors and china, with the result that Mrs. Brown hires a tutor to keep the mischievous trio straight. The tutor, however, provides a fresh field for their pranks, until they escape and hide in a stolen munition car which is pursued by the police.
- 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.
- 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.
- A street urchin is trying to survive on her own, getting into mischief along the way.
- One of a pair of twins gets lost and leads a rough life as assistant to a railroad engineer, while the other one enjoys luxury and ease. They get mixed up of course, but eventually both twins are restored to their parents.
- When Baby Peggy closed her little eyes, little did she realize that the same night she would capture a bold, bad burglar. Her toys and balloons met the burglar every way he turned until at last he ran into the wall, stunned. A passing policeman took him with him, and Baby Peggy closed her eyes to sleep her Beauty Sleep. The next day her suitors called - one at a time. When Harry called he was thrust into the closet when James rang the front bell. James, too, was thrown into one of the obscure corners of the house. This continued in turn as Henry and David each paid their respects with a call on their little "sweetie." But when Chauncey called in his Packard car Peggy was ready to go out, and she did. Then the rivals discovered each other - and then the fun began. When Peggy's folks returned home they found their place looking like - well, you know. Peggy's return home was far from triumphant, but she was saved from a sound spanking by the return of the officer who had Peggy's reward for capturing the burglar.
- As the landlady's pet Lee leads a hectic life, because he does not like her cooking and will persist in making culinary messes in his room, which is against the rules. When the landlady accuses him of this, even the friendly offices of Rosie the monkey will not save him, and when you add to the list of his misdeeds that he is in love with the prettiest boarder, the plot unrolls itself.
- A superstitious suitor is out-witted by his rival with the assistance of Brownie who is up to all sorts of tricks.
- Beth is a modern flapper with a high-powered auto who does not care how she ignores traffic laws or smashes things or bowls over pedestrians, knowing that her good-natured and wealthy father will straighten matters out. The worm turns, however, and papa sends Beth to a fashionable boarding school, where she is hazed by the other girls. Finally her sweetheart "kidnaps" her and they elope and win father's forgiveness.
- A lady and her husband are employed by a theatrical agent, when the lady falls heir to the estate of a circus owner. The estate proves to be a troupe of lions, who create considerable trouble from the moment they arrive in the house.
- 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.
- The hero, a farm boy, learns by correspondence how to be a detective. Going to the city, he becomes the prey of a gang of crooks who use him to obtain his own brother-in-law's furniture. He succeeds, however, is getting it back.
- Harold adopts a clever stray dog after the animal presents him with a bouquet of flowers which Harold had dropped. He calls at the home of Frivolous Sal, who happens to be entertaining three young sheiks. Harold opens the door and tells the dog to do his stuff. In a few minutes the three sheiks dash out, their clothes all torn. Harold steps in, presents his bouquet, and comforts her. Soon, a gentle, delicate-souled lad calls. Sal has Harold wind some yarn while she flirts with the newcomer. Harold winds the yarn and discovers that he is unraveling one of Sal's stockings. She dashes out of the room. The lads step out on the veranda, at Harold's suggestion, to smoke cigars. Harold lures his rival towards the garage, then kicks him in, and locks the door. The dog sees the lad trying to escape, and chews his clothes up. Sal reproves Harold. A vamp bumps Harold and tells him she likes him. Harold takes her walking in front of Sal's home. The vamp lures him to a jewelry shop, but Harold gives her the slip. He leaves a note at Sal's door, informing her that life is not worth living any more. From then on he tries to have his life ended by automobiles and succeeds in being bumped when he spots Sal. He is rushed to the hospital and whispers to the attending physician that his sickness is only "heart" trouble. The doctor tells Sal to nurse him, and when she puts her arms about his neck, he immediately regains consciousness.
- A boarding house slavey yearningly follows a chorus troupe.
- Lee, the henpecked husband of a wife weighing about three hundred or so, is pounded by his worthy spouse and warned to get a job that day or out he goes. The wife accompanies Lee to a blacksmith shop where Lee secures work. Lee has a hard time shoeing horses and a mule that persists in kicking Lee's head - one kick lands Lee on the cash register which rings up some money. Lee has to put up some money out of his pocket to make good. Queenie, the horse, comes in for shoeing. Lee tells her to get a pair of shoes for another little horse there. Queenie brings the blacksmith's shoes and mutilates them. The blacksmith becomes furious at Lee. Lee loses his job. On his way home, Lee buys a bottle of Nervo. He drinks some, goes into his home and orders the gossiping women there out and commands his wife to go out into the barn and get some wood. Just then the Nervo wears off; the wife asserts herself again and Lee jumps out the window onto Queenie and rides away.
- As Caesar and Marc Antony in the movies, the rivals fail and after various other crimes they land in the home of their mutual sweetheart. Father appears with a gun, but they escape by borrowing the girl's clothes.
- An all animal cast (mostly dogs). The story opens with a hobo, played by "Pal," asleep under his blanket which "Joe," his monkey comrade, drags from over him. In order to awake "Pal," "Joe" performs a number of tricks. Finally, both friends cook breakfast. "Joe" milks a goat, in spite of many buttings, and "Pal" catches a fish. Then they start off on their adventures, Joe riding on Pal's back. A beautiful white dog flapper gets mixed up in their lives, her father owns the biggest grocery store in "Barktown." The happy ending wedding ceremony is conducted by a black dog minister, while the bride and her bridesmaid wear white satin and tulle to match their fluffy white coats.
- Buddy is the mischievous son of newly-rich who are vainly trying to break into society. Buddy blunders too much to suit his parents who send him off to a military school, where his behavior is so unbearable that he is driven back home.