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- A tale of the quarrels between the jitney driver and the president of the railway. The streetcar is drawn by two skinny mules and manned by a conductor and a motorman, equally as skinny and snug. The people demand service or the jitney driver for them. Then begins a series of stunts whereby the passengers are pulled by threats, breakdowns, and promises, from the jitney to the streetcar. Finally they both go over the side of a bluff, an equal wreck of debris side by side. The passengers peer out of the windows wearing the never-never-again expression.
- A dishonest undertaker stirs up droll, laughable tragedy between two devoted husbands and their loyal wives in his attempt to build up an insurance sideline when the undertaker business fails.
- Billie's life was not a happy one; his mother-in-law interfered with things. One morning Billie desired to sleep a little longer than usual, but mother-in-law prevented. She tried to get Lucille to leave him, but she had hopes of reforming Billie and suffered in silence. Ma gave Billie a good deal of punishment. Billie thought if he got somebody else for her to abuse she would probably allow him to live his life as he chose to live it. He succeeded in baiting a man and finally got her married to him, but still all was not well. When ma absolutely refused Billie admittance to the house this was the last straw. He would die, thought Billie, but not without satisfaction first. He hired a gang of thugs to do their worst with ma and pa. Gaining entrance to the house through the window, they tied the happy bride and groom to their beds and then pulled the house down the road to the railroad tracks. Billie had succeeded in overcoming an engineer on an engine, and running the thing at the rate of ninety miles an hour proceeded on his way. In order to save themselves the two had to make a wild jump from the top of the house. When the crash came, happiness is an inadequate word to explain Billie's feeling as he looked back and saw the cause of all his troubles underneath a pile of wreckage. Billie in his glee started to climb to the top of the engine, and not thinking sat on the steam pipe, which blew him sky-high. An eagle picked him up and flew away.
- She was just a poor, but honest girl, out looking for a job, when she happened to see the L-KO Film Company offices, and dropped in to secure a job. They did not think much of her work in a tryout as an actress, but when she told them of the number of little mouths she had to feed the manager took pity on her and gave her a job as janitress. Her ambitions were far above the job, and when she discovered an old discarded newspaper, telling of a big floral parade in which the L-KO Company was to participate, she decided that with the assistance of the head janitor they ought to be able to walk away with the parts to be portrayed. After some persuasion, the janitor decides to join her in the impersonation. They arrive at the scene of the parade after donning the apparel of the other actors and actresses. But there was something doing when the actors and actresses who had been chosen by the L-KO to do the work discover that someone had stolen their wardrobes.
- Events which transpire in the lives of flirts are often best not recorded, but the history of Hank and his boss should be given as an example of very raw work. It started when Hank kissed his wife in the park and went to work. As he came in the boss went out, and didn't stop until he was in the park and succumbing to his weakness for flirting. Unluckily, they didn't allow flirting in that park, and the boss was pinched, together with the lady he was flirting with. The boss phoned for Hank to come over to the station and bail him out. Hank came, but discovered it was his own wife whom the boss had managed to get pinched. He bailed his wife and sent her home, but not so the boss. He was left to rot in a foul dungeon. Hank went to the park to brood over the shame which had overtaken his family when the boss's wife breezed in. She saw Hank and then and there decided she wanted him. Hank didn't want to flirt at all, but a nearby officer thought he did, and pinched them both. They were put in a cell right next to the boss, but they didn't know it, and neither did the boss until he broke through and found himself in a cell with his wife and another man. Naturally the boss lost his temper, and so did Hank. When the excitement had subsided, cells were violated, officers were injured and the judge was grossly insulted.
- The artists were trying to paint September mornings one September morning, but it soon developed into a September evening with a good night attached, when one of them tried to sell a bum painting to a shrewd dealer and the other tried to paint a model against her will. This unpleasantness was soon over, however, and the artists got into a Grecian garden where some dancing girls were running around with a smile and some jewelry on, and a gentleman was trying to take snapshots with a camera. The gentleman and the artists tried to look at the ladies simultaneously and as there was only room for one spectator there arose a dispute as to who should gain the vantage point. This dispute was not polite and the three gentlemen start to chase one another about among the poison ivy and whortleberry vines. The dancers remained unembarrassed, but some conscientious policemen thought they were indecent and attempted to hold overcoats over them out of respect for the public morals. The ladies thought differently and ditched the policemen in the cold lake and went back to dance in the sunlight. Things were almost smooth and delightful again when the art dealer appeared and insisted with a Krupp gun the artist could hardly refuse. The other artist was confronted with some little past professional dirty work that he indulged in at one time, and this little affair was unpleasant. The only ones who remained unruffled were the dancing girls, who continued to sport in the sun.
- Billie took out a policy which worked two ways. It was good for a loan of $3.75 or $500 in case of fire. He tried to collect on both clauses but had not counted on rivals and sweethearts. His rival extinguished Billie's insurance blaze and to cop Billie's troubles an ostrich swallowed the bracelet he had bought for his girl. In addition, an unkind note he had written in his rival's name fell into hostile hands and was read by unfriendly eyes. When the fire department and hoses had their turn, Billie found himself completely cured of any inclination to realize on fire insurance policies.
- Phil and Bill love Gaby. Phil had the best of the bargain for he was the proud possessor of a real car while Bill only had a two-seated motorcycle. Bill called to take Gaby out and Phil came along and stole the girl away because he had a real car. But cars have their troubles and Phil stalled and Bill took a shot at the tires. He had no trouble in persuading Gaby to steal away with him, but he disregarded all speed laws and raced over the ill kept street and spilled Gaby into an excavation. Phil saw this and recovered the lost Gaby. Bill was too interested in the scenery to miss her for some time, but when he did he raced back looking for the missing Gaby. Phil had won her heart and hand owing to the fact that he had a real car. This angered Bill and he immediately purchased himself a large touring car and after some difficulty he learned to drive it. When he learned to drive well enough he went on a hunt for Gaby and found her, but alas, too late, for she was just coming out of the minister's home with her husband. This was too much for Bill. He immediately grew desperate and wanted to die at once. He invited the newlyweds to take a ride in his new car. Hardly had they got seated before he turned and told them it would be their last day on this earth. It was some wild ride and aroused the whole country. Cops in automobiles, cops on motorcycles and cops afoot were chasing Bill on his wild ride, and perhaps it would have been going yet had not Bill disregarded all auto ethics and headed for the pier and into the briny deep. This was Bill's finish for the car was a land car only and they all went to a watery grave.
- Reggie was to take his gal Gertie riding. Hank was stuck on Gertie because Gertie had given him an indifferent smile that Hank had taken seriously. When Hank saw Gertie going with Reggie he resolved that they all should die, and he took the chauffeur's place. If Hank had only killed himself, or even Gertie and Reggie immediately, the slaughter would not have been on such a large scale. But when wet pavements, careless pedestrians, cops, traffic, citizens and other impediments get in the way, the result went beyond expectations. Also, Hank tore off the side of a house in which a respectable citizen and his wife were sleeping. They were forced to run out in the yard in negligee. Hank's plan of murder took longer than expected, as he did not reach the pier until after several miles of skidding streets and many squads of pursuing policemen. The delay was worth it, as Hank treated everybody to the biggest thrill of their lives. The auto went straight over the pier, but Hank went under. Reggie and Gertie came up on a tire, but as for Hank, he never did come up.
- To cancel his mortgage, a farmer agrees to marry his daughter to his creditor's son. The daughter has different plans.
- Dinty was hard to discourage in his coquettishness, and he flirted desperately, and without the least embarrassment to himself. Unfortunately he was unlucky in one of his flirting excursions, as he picked out a lady whose husband had the nastiest temper and was the most unreasonable when he got angry, of any flirt discourager alive. Husband gave Dinty a fair and gentlemanly warning and fate was against him until he discovered that he was unintentionally taking a bath in the wife's bathtub. Also he discovered that husband was in the near vicinity with two Krupps, and that the means of exit from the bathroom led right past husband. How flirts miraculously escape, how innocent people get mixed up in pursuits they don't want to, and how some people live through terrible experiences was proven here. The result of it all was that Dinty tried to escape on a streetcar in his kimono. The conductor was willing, the motorman was unwilling and Dinty was unwilling, but husband was close behind with his trusty Krupps, and Dinty just naturally had to keep going to perish from a shot in the excitement. The chase eventually stopped, but it stopped when the streetcar conductor stopped in the middle of a railroad crossing when a train was due to pass. The only thing that got stopped was Dinty's inclination for flirting. The crash was heard for miles and several policemen lost their dignity trying to escape from the onrushing train. As Dinty went up on a sliver from the cowcatcher he remarked that flirting does not pay.
- Mr. Wildcherry was a menace to society and a trouble to his daughter, Eva. Right across the hall lived Mr. Samson Hercules and his bride. When Hercules goes out Wildcherry goes across the hall and makes a low bow to Mrs. Hercules, taking off his hat. She sees "I love you" painted on his bald head. But she is adamant. Then Wildcherry ties a string to a purse and pulls it across the hall to get her into his flat. She crawls after it and gets wedged in under the sewing machine. Eva comes to her aid, and she goes home raging. Eva has two suitors, Mr. Beer and Mr. Buller. Both come to call at once, and while they are there Papa goes over to Mrs. Hercules. Eva has been sewing on the machine and a thread from his trousers is caught in the needle. As he sits talking, his trouser leg begins to unravel, and runs right up to the knee. He hears Mr. Hercules coming and hides. Hercules finds his hat, and he is thrown out. Eva's suitors are getting into a fight, when Wildcherry arrives and separates them. Mr. Hercules goes out to take his annual bath to sooth his feelings. Beer sends Eva a message asking her to elope, and Buller reads it. He makes a plan with Wildcherry to circumvent them. They take their places with a gun at the rope which is hanging out of the window, but unfortunately in a second fight between Beer and Buller, the latter is caught in the rope and seesaws up and down the side of the house, finally landing in the water tank on the roof. The end of the rope coils around the auto in which the lovers sit and they can't start the car. The watertank is upset and Mr. Wildcherry, pulling on the other end of the rope is dragged into the Hercules' bathroom. He makes fast to the bathtub. Mrs. Hercules comes in to take a bath and is dragged out and drawn along the street by the auto of the lovers. En route Mr. Wildcherry falls into the same tub, and the whole outfit crashes through the wall of the bath establishment where Mr. Hercules is bathing. The couples are reunited in the midst of the debris.
- The village beauty is satisfied with her beau Fatty until Uncle Tom's barnstormers hit town and she meets Simon LaGree, who aims to make an impression on the country lass by supplying her with passes to the show. Torn with jealousy, Fatty threatens to kill himself, but changes his mind and decides to take in the show too. The entire town turns out to the performance. The little country lass gets a wonderful thrill when he comes before the curtain bowing and tossing her a rose. She forgets Fatty, but he makes his presence known by throwing a pie in Simon LaGree's face. Poor Fatty, believing that by becoming an actor he can win back the affections of the fair maiden, procures a copy of the play, and starts rehearsing. At the Opera House the play is pushed forward by the property man and assistant props, running on through the thrilling escape of Eliza over the ice, the pursuit by the bloodhounds, to the tragic death of Little Eva, whose ascent to Heaven is ruined when the property man slips on the rope that hauls her up, and he lands on the stage. This last blunder is too much for Simon LaGree. He rushes into the wings blaming the breaking-up of the show on assistant props, who, feeling that he is wrongly accused, comes back with his lists. Drawing a revolver, Simon LaGree goes after assistant props. At the sight of the revolver the audience, with the exception of the town sheriffs, who jump bravely onto the stage, beats a hasty and disorderly retreat. Finding the armed sheriffs at their heels, the entire troupe forget their quarrel, take a stand together against the town's sheriffs, and succeed in routing the town sheriffs, temporarily. Hastening home, the beauty and her friends hear the ravings of Fatty endeavoring to become an actor. Believing him to be one of the troupe, they make a rush to drive him out of the house. Frightened, poor Fatty tries to make a getaway through the window, but he falls into a hogshead, which, becoming overturned, starts rolling down the hill. The beauty and her friends start out at full speed after the hogshead. The sheriffs, having cornered the Uncle Tom's Cabin troupe on the edge of a steep bank, see the hogshead and the crowd rushing toward them, and in their efforts to avoid a collision, all are thrown down the bank. The beauty and her friends are heaped on top of the troupe and the sheriffs, the hogshead landing beside them, the force of its fall and weight of Fatty breaking it to pieces. The property man, by some miracle escaping the slide down the bank, looks over the still forms and. grasping a stave of the hogshead, endeavors to bury them as they lie.
- Dinty, a bum, had just alighted from his "pullman" when he went out on a hunt for cigars. But the men were smoking them very short that season, so it was a hard job to get a good smoke. At last he was run over by a machine as he was in the act of getting a good one, and the doctor took pity on the fellow and took him home. At the house of the doctor he revived and was asked to stay for dinner. During the meal he became flirty and began to write notes to the lady of the house under the table. After dinner he became a little more familiar and the doctor was angry. He ejected Dinty from the house, so the tramp swore revenge. Dinty telephoned the doctor to come to a certain house at once, and then, when the doctor went to the door, he stole the car. Calling for the doctor's wife in the car, he took her for a ride. But as a chauffeur Dinty was not a success and it was not long before the flivver was a thing of the past. It so happened that the smashup occurred just in front of the hospital, so that he was taken inside and given the best of attention. The doctor was at once sent for, as an operation was deemed necessary. But the doctor that came was the very one who was looking for Dinty. With fiendish glee he sharpened the knife and prepared to take his pound of flesh. Dinty managed to get away and led the surgeon a chase all over the hospital. Then the police arrived and things got even more complicated. Dinty got out and took refuge in an auto with the cops after him. The chase ended in the doctor's house again. Dinty entered the room of the doctor's wife and then the doctor came in. He was forced to hide in the closet, but at last was discovered by the irate man. The picture ends as the masher gets his true deserts.
- Billie and Henry, demons of love and jealousy, are both in love with the beautiful daughter of a well-to-do farmer. Sight of one of the demons by the other in the company of the girl is the high sign for battle. Eggs, bricks or any weapon at hand are made use of in their encounters. Billie scores when he manages to elope with the girl in Henry's "auter." Father's chat with his friend, the sheriff, is rudely broken into by the outraged Henry, and the chase after the runaways starts. Unluckily a tire gives out, but finding himself in front of a tire factory. Billie proceeds to order direct to consumer. Not having the size, the superintendent finally agrees to make it for the persistent Billie, who finally urges forward each process of manufacture personally. Henry, father, the sheriff and constables, hot on the trail, arrive before the completion of the tire. Henry is further infuriated by the ruin of his tire and spanks the girl. Billie, loathe to part with the price of the tire, but compelled to do so in order to get away, finds the chasers surrounding the automobile when he rushes forth. Realizing he has lost out with the girl and "auter" he tries to recover his money. This the superintendent objects to and the argument that follows ends in blows. The chasers arrive in the midst of the fracas and lend a hand to the triumph of Henry.
- At a girl's school, two young men make efforts to elope with the same girl.
- Disruption of the entire barber shop force follows in the wake of the numerous love affairs of the fickle manicure girl. With two lovers on the outside, and the head barber on the inside of the shop, she manages to keep things running smoothly until Billie, attracted by the beauty, forces himself to the front. Encouraged on the street by the fickle beauty, he follows her to the shop where he arouses the jealousy of the head barber. Believing himself to be the favored lover, the head barber follows the manicure girl from the shop only to find her in the company of another man, who resents his intrusion, and he is compelled to return to the shop to nurse the black eye and the bruises acquired in the encounter. Hastening to procure refreshments for the girl who has collapsed during the fight, the victor finds on his return another lover in possession of the now fully recovered lady. This being a small man, he disposes of him by throwing him in the lake. Not seeing him come up he believes he has committed murder, and feeling that a disguise is necessary to his getaway, he decides to sacrifice his mustache. Hastening to the nearest barber shop he recognizes his customer and proceeds to get even. He escapes, but is overtaken by the barber and his assistants, who have lent their aid to the chase. The unlucky head barber in a clinch with his rival, is mistaken for the runaway and receives a severe thrashing at the hands of his assistants. Realizing their mistake, a fresh effort is made to catch the runaway, but even as his hands close on him, the head barber discovers the fickle manicure girl seated at a short distance between the now favored Billie and another lover bestowing kisses first to one side and then to the other. Disgusted, the rival and the head barber throw themselves into a conveniently standing dump cart and are carried off to the city dump.
- Ima Knutt was the life saver on the beach and the idol of all the girls. He liked girls to be small and slim, and was much disconcerted when the biggest nut on the beach, an enormous lady in a black bathing suit, insisted upon having his services to teach her to swim. At the same time Knutt Sunday, the clerk at toe soda fountain, was regaling Hazel Knutt, his sweetheart, with the sweetmeat named after him. Ima much prefers Hazel to the fat lady. Into the bathhouse comes Krazy Knutt. H» decides to go in swimming. So does Hazel. Ima brings water wings for her and is delighted with the chance to teach her. He invites her to go for a ride in a beach chair. it runs away with them and Knutt Sunday gives chase. At last they return to the bathhouse. Krazy is pushed into the water, and Ima and the girl sit on the edge making eyes at each other. Krazy ties their shoelaces together, and they both fall in when they try to get up. Ima then seizes Krazy and makes him his assistant life saver. He then goes off with the girl to get some ice- cream. Knutt ties a weight to his leg as he is eating it and the weight drags him into the pool. Ima pulls Knutt in with him. They rush out onto the beach. Ima and the girl hide behind a beach umbrella. Knutt removes the umbrella and puts it over a hideous girl. Ima returns to her and is disgusted. Ima and the girl go for a ride in the flying boats and Knutt follows and spills Ima into the sea. A crab grabs him, and he rushes to the shore. He puts the crab on Sunday. Sunday determines to be revenged. He decoys Ima and the girl into a bathhouse and then chloroforms them with a bicycle pump through the keyhole. He hires two confederates to push the machine into the sea and drown Ima and the girl. The police see the suspicious characters and arrive in time to rescue Ima and Hazel. But the men make a mistake in the bathhouse and Knutt Sunday is drowned.
- Lucille (Lucille Hutton), is the owner of the ranch but Little Mert (Merta Sterling)is the pride and joy of the ranch. She is loved by Al (Al Forbes). Two no-gooders, Chili Ted and Con Carne, show up intending to take her ranch away from Lucille but Little Mert, Al and a mule upset their scheme and save the ranch.
- Billie Ritchie, who is blessed with a numerous family, many bills and a small income, has great trouble in avoiding his many creditors. His adventures are too numerous to mention. He is rather attracted to a neighbor who has a jealous husband, but his efforts to see her are interrupted by a mysterious man, who finally corners Billy and tells him that he wishes to hand him a legacy. Billy, who has employed various subterfuges in order to get a chance to talk to his fair neighbor, at last sees his opportunity and arranges with her to meet him at the telephone company's masquerade. The wires get crossed and wifie becomes suspicious. She goes to the ball followed by her large family. These she masks and mixes in with the guests. Her husband's gay actions finally cause him to become a storm center and in order to escape a mobilization of angry husbands he has to flee across the telegraph wires. They follow him and he is captured and punished after a spirited chase.