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- An actor, Julian Lorraine (J. Frank Glendon), mistakenly believes his wife Viola Lorraine (Alice Day) has been unfaithful. Complications and tears and scorn follow.
- 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.
- Frederick Arnold, a wealthy stockbroker in New York City, sets out to prove that most women are corrupted by wealth. Will he succeed?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Umluk, an Eskimo chief, falls into a crevice while hunting and is rescued by Dr. Wells, a distinguished Arctic explorer and scientist. Umluk returns to his igloo, where he finds Mike Burke, an ex-whaler who runs a trading post in partnership with Izzy Hawkins. Mike has been attempting to win the favor of Umluk's promised bride, the Eskimo-Russian Wamba, by giving her trinkets. Umluk forces Mike to leave, but the trader returns later and takes the willing Wamba away with him, forcing her sister, Nootka, to accompany them as their servant. Umluk learns of the betrayal from Izzy and pursues the party in a light sled. He soon catches sight of the three travelers, but an unlucky accident to his sled prevents him from reaching them. Umluk eventually finds the group in a rough settlement, and, after several trials and tribulations, returns to his icy home with the faithful Nootka, leaving the degraded Wamba behind.
- Percy and Ferdy Hallroom are up against it, and decide to try their luck as book agents when confronted on all sides by policemen who persistently point to "work or jail" signs. They meet with poor success, and adopt many clever ruses to get into a promising looking office, but all to no avail, and finally beg a "cop" to arrest them. When taken to the jail, they are again confronted with a sign, "no vacancies."
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- A woman, Mrs. Cameron (Estelle Taylor), is blackmailed by her lover's roommate, Blake (Philo McCullough). Her husband, Mr. Cameron (Wyndham Standing), is then accused of the murder of her lover, Ronnie Sears (Vernon Steele). The resolution reveals the culprit to be Blake, who confesses before falling to his death.
- An armament king's wife kills herself to save her MP lover from a divorce scandal.
- 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.
- 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 beautiful singer goes to Paris, marries unhappily, wins fame and fortune through her voice and finally achieves happiness for herself.