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- John Slocum, a retired naval officer, runs a lighthouse, but the job he likes best is taking care of his young ward Little Beth. However, a sly smuggler named Eric Manmont and his beautiful accomplice Valerie are about to use John and Beth in a clever smuggling scheme. What they don't know is that the Coast Patrol has assigned agent Dale Ripley to find and capture the smugglers.
- Northwest Mounted Policeman faces many obstacles in attempting to apprehend a murderer. He miraculously escapes ambush and learns of the dying murderer's name. After a thrilling fight he secures a confession from his man and saves the girl from disaster.
- To keep the old homestead from being foreclosed, a mother agrees to have her daughter marry the deep-dyed villain who hold the mortgage. However, the daughter has a race-car-driving fiancée who objects, and sets about getting a patent on his new-and-improved automobile valve.
- Young New Yorker Mason (Frank Merrill), who loves a good fight, runs for public office. As part of his election campaign he agrees to not get involved in any fights and refuses to respond with violence to even the most heavy provocation. All this disappoints his wealthy uncle, who erroneously believes Mason is a weak coward.
- Hugh Drummond is sent by his father to negotiate a deal with banker Benjamin Way, but upon his arrival, discovers that Way has disappeared. Townsman Steve Rutland, secretly hoping to gain control of the bank's wealth, stirs up trouble until a run on the bank is threatened. With Way's daughter's help, Hugh follows clues to Way's location and is able to rescue him. Hugh then manages to stop of group of construction-camp men from causing a run on the bank. Afterward, Hugh returns to town in time to stop a panic there, and to get Rutland arrested.
- Police officer Frank Brady is sent on an undercover operation to apprehend a gang of drug traffickers. After he becomes part of the gang, he falls in love with Helen Matthews, a young woman whose uncle is implicated and subsequently murdered. When Frank learns that the secret head of the gang is prominent banker John Kingsley, and that there is a plot to abduct Helen, he warns her by means of a wireless device. She makes her escape in time, Frank has Kingsley arrested, and the two sweethearts are reunited.
- A seaman on board a sailing ship battles mutinous crew members, a corrupt millionaire trying to take over the ship and falls in love with a girl who turns out to be his adopted sister.
- Jack Melford, the prize hurdler at a small college, wins a big race and learns immediately afterward that his father is near death. He returns home to find his father dead and himself penniless, his father having left everything to Dr. Dehli, the foreign specialist who treated him. Jack later discovers that the same Dr. Dehli is caring for Julia Cunningham, the aunt of his orphaned sweetheart, Rae Davis. Jack eventually exposes the doctor as a charlatan, revealing Dehli's plans to hypnotize Rae's aunt and force her to disinherit the girl. Jack also rounds up the crooks who worked with Dehli, winning for himself the love of Rae and the gratitude of her aunt.
- Dr. Frank Martin, just as he is opening office for the day, meets "Chug" Wilson, owner of the local gymnasium, and George Stafford, who demands that the doctor make a call at the Sanders house. There he finds Malcolm Sanders and his daughter, Susie, caring for Jimmy, a cripple suffering from measles. Stafford resents the fact that Susie and Frank are attracted to each other; and as the two men are coming to blows, Wilson invites them to the gym to fight it out. Jimmy's measles are cured, and with exercise in the gym, his leg begins to mend under Frank's care. Stafford schemes with "Scissors" Lomski, a professional wrestler, to stage a match, designates Sanders as trustee of the prize money, but substitutes old paper for the money. Frank learns of the swindle and proceeds to thrash the culprits but is downed by foul play. At the wrestling contest, while Lomski is being beaten, Stafford abducts Susie, and Frank pursues in a car, then in a speedboat, to rescue her.
- Speed Creswell, whose father is an oil magnate, learns that David Brierly, the trusted foreman of the senior Creswell's business, secretly is working for a rival company. The rivals want to acquire some valuable oil leases currently owned by Creswell before oil is discovered on the property. When reporter Vera Wray hears about Brierly's treachery, she tries to confirm the story, but is kidnapped by oilfield hands who are working with him. Speed eventually rescues Vera and forces Brierly to find the oil before Creswell's rivals can usurp the lease from him.
- On a mission to discover the identity of the rustlers of the cattle on Britton ranch, Blue Streak O'Neil exposes the villains mingling with the sheriff's posse. Having won the ranch for the heroine, he accepts from her a half interest in it, and also her love.
- Dave Melford, the crooked boss of the Leadingham lumber interests, with the aid of Miles Barnes, an "oily bookkeeper," attempts to freeze out the smaller lumber camps. Baxter, one of Melford's victims, complains to Leadingham, but Melford shows up and an argument ensues. Later, Leadingham is killed, and Baxter flees when he is caught with the murder weapon by Leadingham's son, Frank. In the guise of a detective, Frank follows, accompanied by his college chum, Manning Duff. Frank falls in love with Baxter's daughter, Maxine. Melford, learning that Frank suspects Baxter, tries to scare Maxine into marriage. Baxter is arrested and jailed. Frank finds that the murder weapon really belongs to Melford, and after Frank and Manning defeat Melford and Barnes in a fight, Melford confesses. The elder Leadingham arrives, alive and well, and reveals that the murder was a ruse to trap Melford.
- Jimmy Jones is afflicted with a nervous disorder that causes him to start and tremble at any unexpected noise. Despite many manful attempts to cure himself, Jimmy is looked upon as a coward by the people of his town; even Lillian Gilman, the girl he admires, shares in the popular contempt for him. When the World War breaks out, Jimmy goes to France, where he comes under the influence of Sergeant Banks, a canny veteran who doesn't know what fear is. Banks teaches Jimmy the ropes and hardens his moral and physical fiber. Jimmy returns home a new man, whips his rival, and wins Lillian for his wife.
- Reggie Collins wins a bet that he will capture a notorious crook and his gang.
- Crooks cloak their operations in Chinatown. Navy Lieutenant is assigned task of exterminating gang, aided by friendly Chinese, but captured by crooks, and faces death with young woman agent disguised as Chinese. They are saved by Police
- Tim, a rookie policeman, becomes engaged to Mary O'Neill, whose brother is mixed up with a gang of car thieves. One of the gang, Red Mike, makes himself obnoxious to Mary (who had once rejected his marriage proposal), and Tim beats him in a fight. To gain revenge, Mike frames Tim's father, Pat, for murder, and Tim takes the blame. Tim is released on bail and through Mary's brother learns that Mike was behind the frame-up. He brings the gang to justice, is reinstated on the force, and marries Mary.
- After inheriting his uncle's ranch, a cowpoke manages to capture a ghost of the range, break up some cattle rustlers, and win the girl.
- Not knowing that his boss is endeavoring by crooked means to secure possession of a neighbor's ranch, the Battling Kid is a model superintendent until he discovers the treachery. He then throws his lot in with the heroine's father in a battle against such foul play and succeeds in foiling his former boss's purposes and winning the girl.
- A New York race track con artist tries to swindle a thoroughbred owner out of this prize filly, but the plot is interrupted by a race car driver Speed Sherman.
- Wealthy town "boss" David Manning has everything he desires except Sally Hibbard, and he plots to "rescue" Sally and her parents from a situation and thus put her under an obligation to him. Sally, however, meets Frank Gibson when they find themselves photographed together by a "picture machine." Later, Manning's henchmen attack Frank and his pal, "Rubber Chin" Smith, but the gang gets the worst of it. While on his milk delivery route, Frank overhears Manning's plotting and by accident finds himself at the Hibbard home, where Sally invites him to join a party. The party is invited to a tavern, where Frank follows and frustrates Manning's scheme to stage a police raid by substituting milk for the liquor on the guests' tables. Frank turns out to be the governor's son and is betrothed to Sally.
- A young racing driver combines best features of two rival cars, thus producing an automobile which is the best entry in a 100-mile cross-country race. He triumphs over other contestants and wins the girl of his heart.
- After claiming victory in a boxing match, Robert Lacy, son of a wealthy timber king, and a friend go to his father's lumber camp under an assumed name to straighten out some trouble there. Upon his arrival, a reward is posted for his discovery, dead or alive. The foreman one of his compatriots steal the camps wages and attempt to flee. The camp bookkeeper's daughter witnesses the escape and follows them. Meanwhile, Robert has fallen in love with her and goes after her. The thieves are captured and love is victorious.
- A young American athlete in search of adventure heads for a South American country dominated by a dictator, and with the help of friends and a lovely girl, sets up a revolution to free those lands.
- Bashful hero lets Eastern party headed by his aunt run his ranch until girl with whom he is in love is in danger. He then asserts his rights and prevents kidnapping of girl by bandits.
- Arriving on the border and scornful of tales of the wild west, our hero is forced to submit to changing clothes with a bandit for whom he is afterwards mistaken by the sheriff and the posse. He finally captures the real bandit and holds him for the sheriff, and then devotes his time to mistress of the local post office store, who returns his manly affection.
- Jack Sontag, son of a western pioneer, bids goodbye to his fiancée, Beatrice Dale, as she departs for college back east. Jack resumes his pursuit after a gang of smugglers and kidnappers, operating in Mexico, led by Mafia Mike. By a ruse, Jack is accepted into the gang. Meanwhile, Beatrice is kidnapped and brought to Mexico to be sold to the highest bidder among the white-slave trade. Jack rescues her and, with the aid of the Mexican Rurales, rounds up Mafia Mike's gang.
- Hero prevents theft of ranch property by man who also desires possession of girl with whom hero is in love. He succeeds in driving villain over border and claims girl.
- Dan Webber, a sailor in the U.S. Navy who has been away from home for many years and presumed dead, returns to his farm to find that his family is about to be evicted. Dan's sweetheart arrives with a baby who, unknown to Dan, is actually the child of his younger brother and the sweetheart's sister. Dan is able to save his farm when his horse, Firefly, wins a big race. Finally, it is revealed that Dan's brother, who had been involved with Barlow, an unscrupulous moneylender and bank thief, is secretly married to the mother of his child.