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A struggling reporter reluctantly pays to help a country girl search New York for her vanished childhood sweetheart.
In a freezing attic, an impoverished writer believes he has created an idea no one has ever expressed.
A captain refuses to accept a rejected marriage proposal and travels south to plead his case in person.
A prosecutor weighs a counterfeit dollar against a young couple's future, while an old enemy prepares his revenge.
A carefree young heir must explain how he spends a thousand-dollar bequest before learning what the money may truly be worth.
A land promoter meets a trusting elderly couple whose dreams rest on the very development he has been selling.
Hiding from the police, an East Side gang member meets a woman whose carefully told story gives him hope for a different life.
A captain recruits an eager adventurer who insists that one small star brings disaster to everything he joins.
A struggling writer challenges his editor to discover how people really speak when disaster arrives.
Daisy has two admirers: a shopkeeper with very little space and a philosopher eager to show her the vastness of the universe.
A village poet leaves home for fame and reaches a crossroads where three choices promise three different futures.
A poet who laments the death of romance finds a beautiful neighbor and what seems to be a message in flowers.
A president arrives for his customary welcome, but silent crowds and an offended fruit company suggest a different reception.
Lost in the Texas brush, a quarrelsome rancher reconsiders how he has treated his lonely wife.
A press agent praises summer in New York until his wealthy friend's visit turns an argument about holidays into a rivalry.
A Western newcomer becomes a rival for a painter's affection in her wealthy uncle's New York home.
Two rogues accompany a respectable merchant who believes he can beat a counterfeit-money swindle at its own game.
With a shoe store failing in barefoot Coralio, Johnny Atwood devises a secret way to make the town need its merchandise.
A consul's joke about a tropical shoe market brings the woman he still loves—and her father's entire savings—to Coralio.
A honeymoon sightseeing trip turns awkward when two policemen identify a small-town bridegroom as a wanted burglar.
A millionaire’s son and a village boy put social theory to an unexpectedly practical test.
Homesick travelers share memories on a fine evening, until one companion grows unusually solemn about life's risks.
Among Christmas shoppers, a poorly dressed child asks a clerk for ten cents' worth of something for the baby.
Talk of South American storms draws out a Kansas salesman's extraordinary account of a cyclone.
