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- The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.
- The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put their relationship in jeopardy.
- A boy leaves his small country town and heads to the big city to get a job. As soon as he makes it big his sweetheart will join him and marry him. His enthusiasm to get ahead leads to some interesting adventures.
- To show his girl how brave he is Fatty challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters.
- Disguised as a priest, an escaped convict makes his way to Texas. He ends up in a small rural town where the townsfolk mistake him for their new church minister.
- A father takes his family for an outing, which turns out to be a ridiculous trial.
- An out-of-work swindler takes a job as a reporter. After witnessing a car go over cliff, he grabs a rival reporter's camera and races to the newspaper office to enter the photo as his own. His rival is delayed when he gets caught in a woman's bedroom by her jealous husband. The swindler follows the distribution of the paper containing his 'scoop' around town where he is once again chased by the rival reporter. Both end up on the cow-catcher of a streetcar.
- Episodic look at married life and in-law problems. Adventures include a ride on a crowded trolley with a live turkey, a wild spin in a new auto with the in-laws in tow, and a sequence in which Hubby accidentally chloroforms his mother-in-law and is convinced that he has killed her. When she begins sleep-walking, he thinks that she has returned to haunt him.
- The Tramp wanders into and disrupts the filming of a go-kart race.
- Charlie attempts to meet his favorite movie actress at the Keystone Studio, but does not win friends there.
- The Professor dispenses the wisdom of the ages and does not make a living wage. The sons of the rich and powerful are students lacking any motivation. The next door neighbor of the Professor, businessman Olsen, has money and lots of food, while the Griggs have hardly any. Both Peter Olsen and Reverend Gates are taken by the beauty of young Amelia Griggs. When rich son Phil West falls for Amelia Griggs and befriends the poor Reverend Gates, he finally sees the difference in his life and theirs and tries to do something to change that.
- Prevented from dating his sweetheart by his uncle, a young man turns his thoughts to murder.
- A nephew takes his wheelchair-bound uncle and sweetheart to the park, where he meets the Little Tramp. The Tramp knows a money-making opportunity when he sees one.
- Two drunks live in the same hotel. One beats his wife, the other is beaten by his. They go off and get drunk together. They try to sleep in a restaurant using tables as beds and are thrown out. They lie down in a rowboat which fills with water, drowning them--a fate apparently better than going home to their wives.
- A sincere working-class 13-year old in France is adopted by a well-meaning philanthropic millionairess from America -- who promises his doting mother that the boy will have the finest education -- but things are not so simple.
- Charlie is janitor for a firm the manager of which receives a threatening note about his gambling debts. He throws a bucket of water out the window which lands on his boss and costs him his job. The boss, attempting to steal the money heeds from the office safe, is caught by his secretary and Charlie comes to save her and the money. He is briefly accused of being the thief but ultimately triumphs.
- Charlie pretends to be a dentist though he is only his assistant. When a patient can't stop laughing from the anesthesia Charlie knocks him out with a club. He is sent to the drug store, gets in a fight with a man who (after a brick in the face) becomes another patient, and pulls the skirt off the dentist's wife (who is out walking). At one point Charlie pulls a tooth (the wrong one) using enormous pliers.
- Charlie is hanging around in the park, finding problems with a jealous suitor, a man who thinks that Charlie has robbed him a watch, a policeman and even a little boy, all because our friend can't stop snooping.
- Charlie is an actor in a film studio. He messes up several scenes and is tossed out. Returning dressed as a lady, he charms the director. Even so, Charlie never makes it into film, winding up at the bottom of a well.
- The plot is a satire derived from Hugh Antoine D'Arcy's poem of the same title. The painter courts Madeleine but loses to the wealthy client who sits for his portrait. The despairing artist draws the girl's portrait on the barroom floor and gets tossed out. Years later he sees her, her husband and their horde of children. Unrecognized by her, Charlie shakes off his troubles and walks off into the future.
- Charlie and another waiter must become bakers when the regular bakers go out on strike. The strikers put dynamite in a piece of bread which is delivered to the cake counter. It winds up in the oven and explodes.
- Accosted by a masher in the park and unable to motivate husband Charlie into taking action, Mabel gets him a boxing mannequin to sharpen his fighting skills.
- Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret and must endure the strict orders from his boss. He meets a pretty girl in the park and pretends to be a fancy ambassador but must contend with the jealousy of her fiancé.
- In a hotel lobby, an inebriated Charlie runs into an elegant lady, gets tied up in her dog's leash, and falls down. He later runs into her in the hotel corridor, locked out of her room. They run through various rooms. Mabel ends up in one, hiding under the bed of an elderly husband. Enter the jealous wife and Mabel's lover.
- Charlie and another man compete in trying to help a young lady cross a muddy street. The rival finds a wooden plank which Charlie takes from him. They fight over an umbrella belonging to the rival. A policeman settles the dispute, ultimately arresting the rival. An innocent tramp is pushed into the lake.
- Virtuous Mabel rejects the improper advances of a villainous cad. The furious villain and his henchmen then seize Mabel and chain her to a railroad track. Mabel's anxious boyfriend turns for help to the great Barney Oldfield, who jumps in his racing car and speeds to the rescue.
- A very plastered fella follows a pretty woman home, and proceeds to make a nuisance of himself.
- A brat's magic lantern show exposes an indiscreet moment between a landlady and her star boarder.
- A continuous exchange of meetings between husbands and wives of different couples in which a policeman intrudes in daring chase until both couples are found.
- A silly aristocrat who believes that he has been jilted attempts suicide but he is saved from death and reunited with his fiancée.
- Three man will fight for the love of a charming girl. Charlie will play dirty, throwing bricks to his contender, and using a huge hammer to hurt one of them. But a precocious kid will be the fourth suitor in discord.
- A jealous wife is chasing her unfaithful husband during a parade, after he starts to flirt with a pretty woman.
- Charlie dreams he is in the Stone Age, where King Low-Brow rules a harem of wives. Charlie, in skins and a bowler, falls in love with the king's favorite wife, Sum-Babee. During a hunting trip the king is pushed over a cliff. Charlie proclaims himself king, but Ku-Ku discovers the real king alive. They return to find Charlie and Sum-Babee together.
- Charlie is walking in the park. A girl leaves a seaman on one bench and joins Charlie on another. The seaman wakes up. He and Charlie stage a brick fight. Policemen get hit and arrest both men. During an ensuing fight on the dock the policemen, the seaman, Charlie and the girl wind up in the water.
- At a farm near Bangville, the young daughter see strangers in the barn. She quickly rushes to the house and calls the police. The police engage in a haphazard rush across the countryside to get there in time.
- The daughter of a Kentucky colonel returns from her European finishing school to help prove his innocence as he is accused of killing a major with whom he had a feud over money.
- When the Civil War begins, young Billy runs away from home to enlist in the Northern Army as a drummer; he's wounded in battle and taken prisoner. He manages to escape and deliver an important message to his commanding officer, but loses his life in the process.
- Tex Sherwood has just come into possession of a valuable piece of land that will be irrigated by a new dam. Banker Holman knowing the deed must be registered the next day, offers a $50,000 reward for Tex's capture.
- This is the story of a gardener whose whole lifetime had been spent in the one place. He loved the flowers, petted them, and gave them the detail of the only romance he had ever witnessed. "You see, little pansy," he said, "when I came here, many years ago, Miss May was a little girl. There was a nice little boy who lived right over there, and they were greet chums. They played together, day after day, and were childhood sweethearts. Well, they grew up, and one afternoon I saw them talking earnestly over on the old bench there. She nodded her head, when he kissed her, and taking a ring, put it on her finger. For a time they were happy, then they quarreled. It was a silly dispute, and in my opinion, both were to blame. I hoped they would make up but they didn't. He went to the city, she remained here. Other suitors came, but she would not have them. Her heart was with the man she had loved when they were children. You know, little pansy, how Miss May has thrown her garden open to the poor children. Well, to-day I was standing out under the big sign that says all children are welcome, when an auto came up. 1 looked at the man in it, and recognized the chap Miss May loved. I called a greeting to him; he stopped and we shook hands. It had been many years since the boy had played about here, and I had to be careful. If he had known Miss May was here, I doubt if he would have come in. So I talked about the children, and he stepped in to see them. Then, before he realized it, I had led him to the old bench. It must have called back recollections, for it was there that as a boy he had wooed his tiny sweetheart. It was there that as a man he had won her promise to be his bride. Better than all, she was sitting there now, all alone and forlorn. I just led him up to the bench, and left him. I knew that my work was successful when I saw the glad light in their eyes. It was only stubbornness that had kept them apart all these years. The job was to bring them together and I did it."
- An explosives and black powder expert visits a powder factory in order to inspect it, but when he appears to be more interested in its female workers, an explosive situation results.
- Thomas Graal's a screenwriter, is very fond of his secretary Bessie. Overtaken by a kiss by Thomas she runs away. In his misfortune Thomas writes a screenplay inspired by Bessie. But she has not been really honest with him .
- Willy is a rather effeminate young man, and is abused by the town bully. He suspects that the bully is a coward at heart, so disguises himself as a bandit and shoots up the town. Everybody, including the sheriff, flees in terror, and their consternation is ludicrous when they discover that the terrible bandit is none other than harmless Willy.
- Nora Egan, a pretty attractive Irish lassie, is very much in love with Rory O'Connor, who has aspirations for the priesthood. This situation worries Father Daly, the parish priest. Jim Macy, the bailiff, loves Nora, but she spurns him. Angered, he vows that unless the taxes are paid that Nora and her widowed mother shall be the first to be evicted from their home. Father Daly attempts to quiet the mob that has gathered around the notice of eviction of non-taxpayers. The bailiff, with some English troops, starts evicting the Irish from their homes and a great fight takes place. Nora's mother is arrested and Nora, pursued and insulted by Jim, meets Rory, who gives him a good beating. Father Daly arrives upon the scene of the fight and succeeds in stopping it until he can arbitrate matters. That evening, tired with his strenuous day. Father Daly falls asleep. He dreams that the English are attempting to evict the Irish from their homes. Rory is pursued and escapes into a cave where he finds the Harp of Tara, which, according to the legend, when found by a good man, shall prove the saving and freeing of Ireland. Rory takes the harp to the rectory just as the English are making a stand outside the church, where Father Daly has marshaled the Irish. Jim, unknown to Rory, has entered the rectory and while Nora is making love to Rory, seizes the harp and threatens to smash it unless Nora promises to become his wife. Father Daly begs her for the sake of Ireland to marry Rory, but Rory takes Nora in his arms. Angered, Jim smashes the harp. Father Daly awakens to find a messenger from the Mayor promising an extension of time.
- Collegian Angelica "Trix" Varden, willful daughter of William Varden, after a midnight spread of lobster and ice cream, has a dream about an adventure on her father's ranch involving her horse Beverly, one Jack Norton, and Buck Barlow's gang of rustlers. She is expelled from school and returns home to find a handsome new foreman, who is none other than Jack Norton. Trix's curiosity is aroused by her dream, and she finds evidence of rustlers. Barlow shows up, and she locks herself in a cabin and sends Jack's horse, Star, for help. Jack finally defeats Barlow in a fight, and the two horses "realize" that they now have both a master and a mistress.
- A romantic tale from Shakespeare's late career, concerning the trials of the virtuous Princess Imogen.
- John Rockwood, an energetic young lawyer, was nominated for district attorney, by a political party which had been long out of power, and whose shrewd boss, Martin Rowley, determined should control the destinies of the city. Rockwood, brilliant and popular, was sure to draw many votes, and after his nomination it became clear that his election was almost a foregone conclusion. The candidate's little sister, Helen, a girl of sixteen, had been, since childhood, a cripple. Crampton, a wealthy manufacturer, was a persistent violator of the fire ordinances, and, as a result, many of his employees were injured in a fire. The district attorney refused to interfere, but when John's attention was drawn to the matter. He promised to prosecute vigorously, if elected. Crampton, in alarm, consulted Rowley, who told him that John's statement was merely a campaign story, and that he would not be harmed. Rowley felt safe in making this promise, for John was a devoted admirer of his daughter, Maude, and he believed that he would do anything rather than lose favor with her. To calm Crampton's fears, Rowley wrote John, telling him that he had assured the manufacturer that there would be no prosecution in the event of Rockwood's election, but to his amazement, he received a letter stating that John would have nothing to do with such a dishonest transaction. Rowley angrily called up John on the telephony and the candidate listened with amazement to what the boss said. Helen, who was in the room, timidly touched John on the arm, and the amazed young man listened to a confession from his little sister which surprised and touched him. The letter he had written to Rowley assured the boss that he would comply with his wishes. Helen read the letter, and, grief-stricken that her brother could stoop so low, destroyed it and substituted a missive which angrily rejected the boss' proposal. Shamed by Helen's action, John turned to the telephone and told the boss that he meant every word he said. A boss generally can revenge himself upon a disobedient candidate, and John fully expected that his career was ended. The election, however, was very satisfactory to John, for he was triumphantly elected district attorney, and, best of all, he found that the grim old politician respected a man who was a good fighter and considered him worthy of his daughter's hand.
- A gang of thieves continually threaten or attempt to kill the Mayor, always setting up the bumbling Chief of Police as the culprit. The Chief's very friendly relationship with the Mayor's wife doesn't help. When the Mayor's valuables are stolen the Chief is given a chance to redeem himself.