Lightnin' Bill Williams, the owner of a 50,000-acre ranch near the town of Cactusville, takes a fall off a cliff, and the experience affects him to the extent that he has lost his nerve. Oil promoter Dan Carson and geologist Lional Murphy find large oil deposits under Bill's ranch, and decide to...
Tom and Dick, young boys of the country, are chums. Their sorrows and joys are shared; what belongs to one belongs to the other. One beautiful summer morn, Eleanor, a pretty young miss from the city, comes to the small town to visit a relative. Tom and Dick cease to be friends; jealousy coming...
Jack Lane is returning from the East after an unsuccessful attempt to obtain a loan to pay off the mortgage on his father's ranch. On the train, he meets Ellen Rand, who is smitten at the sight of her first real cowboy. Later he learns that she is the nurse who is to care for his paralytic father,...
When Buster Brown’s mother decides to advertise for a tutor, Buster, Mary Jane and faithful Tige do all they can to dissuade the applicants, but Herr Professor von Blitzen takes command of the situation.
Another of the "Variety Views" continuing adventures with Shorty the Chimp getting loose and running amok. Tired of waiting at the fire house for a blaze, Shorty sets one in the building himself. At another fire, Shorty makes a jungle-style rescue by climbing hand-over-hand on wires leading into a...
Buster Brown and his sister Mary Jane try to play a prank on Mrs. Benton when she brings her baby to their house. But their father, wise to their antics, has a scheme of his own to thwart their plan.
Mrs. Mulligan, although in poor circumstances, taken the child of her neighbor, who has just passed into another world, to live with her. Dolly becomes quite chummy with Tom, one of Mrs. Mulligan's sons, and during the child's saddest hours Tom comforts her. Tom proposes that Dotty write a letter...
