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A young doctor must keep his wealthy friend awake after a dangerous mistake at the medicine cabinet.
Two Western swindlers arrive in New York expecting easy money and receive an enticing introduction to a famous financier.
A salesman dismisses novels about love across class lines, then tells a fellow passenger about his own courtship.
A missing land certificate puts a widow's home within reach of an unscrupulous speculator.
A ragged man's attack on a passerby leads a reporter to the history of a highly profitable journalism school.
A self-exiled man falls in love in New Orleans but believes his own troubled past makes him unworthy of happiness.
A wealthy man’s day at Coney Island brings him close to a working girl and her very different world.
An eccentric Salvation Army drummer struggles to part with a mysterious friend as a hard winter strains the town's charity.
Two rival suitors join a treasure hunt, bringing very different ideas about the value of education.
A young man sends a street boy to plead his case to the woman who has forbidden him to write or speak to her.
A baffling war telegram sends a newspaper’s cleverest editors searching for a missing code.
Two New Orleans reporters reopen a missing-money mystery when a convent announces an auction.
A prosperous prospector plans a lavish Christmas for a mining town that has one inconvenient shortage: children.
A tramp finds a lost rag doll whose Christmas reward attracts dangerous attention.
A gifted amateur wit turns professional, then discovers how hard it is to keep earning money from laughter.
Two veteran swindlers target a Pittsburgh millionaire’s passion for antiquities, while one partner tries to keep his conscience intact.
A waitress who cannot bear watching men eat presents two hungry suitors with an unusual courtship problem.
A red-haired stranger wins Coralio's affection and a young woman's heart, but trouble exposes questions about his business.
After years of solitary evenings, a sporting man's wife asks him to take her out to dinner.
A young woman seeking honest work finds that New York's self-appointed protectors keep closing the doors before her.
A Vermont art student samples New York's Bohemian nightlife and becomes convinced that her respectable future is lost.
An exacting bank examiner arrives in a Texas town where old loyalties complicate the rules.
A bored young clubman helps a burglar improve his wardrobe and discovers that the stranger has something to teach him.
A grieving land commissioner faces a claim that could turn a valley's families out of their homes.
