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- Madeline's mother is a widow and her twin sister, Marion, is crippled. Mrs. Goddard takes in sewing, and Madeline sells newspapers. The daughter of a wealthy man becomes interested in the little newsgirl, and on further acquaintance May Gordon persuades her father to pay for an operation on Marion Goddard's hip. They take Marion home to their beautiful house to recuperate. Meanwhile. Red Hogan, wanted for burglary, breaks into the Gordon mansion with Whitey, his pal. Marion blocks his operations and effects his arrest. Mr. Gordon has offered $1,000 for Hogan's capture and this he now insists upon awarding to Marion. But she will not take the money. Mr. Gordon retaliates by making Mrs. Goddard and both Madeline and Marion members of his own household.
- Tom Fitzsimmons is discharged from the ranch where, as a cowboy, he has the nerve to propose to the ranch owner's daughter. Disheartened, Tom seeks what solace he can find in the nearby booze emporium, and there, in a penny dreadful, he reads of a hold-up. This determines his course and he goes out to become a bandit. In holding up the stagecoach, however, he finds that he is in reality holding up the hold-up man Red Bill, for whom $1,000 reward is offered. He completes his capture, collects his thousand dollars reward, and returning to the ranch dazzles the owner's eyes with his crisp thousand-dollar bill and wins the girl.Votes22
- Based on the £150,000 pearl necklace robbery of July 1913.
- Frank Edmanton, secretary to the president of the First National Bank, is a married man, yet he is infatuated with Lila Holmes, a woman of the half world. Lila herself is disgusted with the part she plays in life, especially so when her mother refuses to accept money from her, knowing her mode of making her living. Lila's mother has all her savings in a small country bank. Lila waves aside Frank's entreaties that she join him, with the statement that she can never consent to such a proposition unless he can supply her with the luxuries she has been accustomed to. There is a run on the country bank in which Lila's mother has her money. The president 'phones the First National in the city, asking for aid to ward off the rush of depositors demanding their money. Frank is selected by the president of the First National Bank to convey a large sum of money to the country bank. Feeling the money once within his hands, Frank is tempted to use it, and goes to Lila's apartment, shows her the money and begs her to flee with him. Lila, realizing in him another victim, consents. She bids him wait below until she gets ready to leave. Suddenly her eyes fall upon a paper naming the depositors of the bank. She then realizes that her mother's savings are in jeopardy unless the money reaches the country bank. Seizing the bag containing the money, she leaves the house secretly, and forcing Frank's chauffeur to do her will, is driven to the country bank, where she arrives just in time to allay the fears of the frenzied depositors. Her mother is in the crowd at the door, and recognition between them follows, with forgiveness. Frank, meanwhile, has found Lila absent from her apartment and decides he has been tricked. He goes home with the intention of quitting life, but his wife finds him with the revolver in hand about to kill himself. He tells her the whole story from beginning to end. His wife calls the country bank on the 'phone, where she learns what has happened. The president of the bank puts Lila on the 'phone and she asks for Frank. She dismisses him with the statement that she is going home with her mother, and admonishes him to be good to his wife. Frank explains to the bank president that, falling suddenly ill, he had turned the money over to Lila for delivery and no one except his wife and Lila suspects his intended absconding.
- Scotty's only daughter, Ethel, was becoming gradually blind. Doctors made an examination, and concluded that an operation was necessary to save the girl's sight, the cost of which would be two hundred dollars. Scotty had not the required sum and to make things worse, lost his job at the factory. At this state of affairs, Scotty, determined to save Ethel from a bitter life, set out into the world to find work. His wanderings led him to an oil well, where a goodly foreman pressed him into service. It was not long before Scotty was sent out on a special job near the wells. Meanwhile, the foreman's little girl had started from her mother's side and wandered to dangerous ground near a cliff. Scotty saw the little one and risked his own life to rescue her. He climbed the treacherous precipice and carried the child safely to the wells. His heroic act was witnessed by the frantic mother through a surveying instrument. At the wells Scotty fell, exhausted, and was carried to the foreman's house. On regaining consciousness he told of his own little girl back home becoming more and more blind every day, and to save whom he was struggling. His tale struck deep into the hearts of the men, all of whom had witnessed his valiant deed. It was voted to lake a collection, and, with the foreman as the largest contributor, Scotty was enabled to save his daughter from a calamity shortly worse death.
- This shows the final washing of the gold on one of the richest claims in the Klondike. The coarse gold and nuggets are placed in the pan ready for weighing. During the four years the owner, Professor Lippy, has received over $5,000,000 from this claim.
- Ambitious but struggling attorney John Trask, is puzzled when Christine Lloyd, a mysterious young woman, entrusts him with $30,000 to purchase a necklace that will be delivered to his office the next day. The necklace was stolen by Christine's brother Sydney to pay his gambling debts and Christine, attempting to shield her brother, hires Trask to retrieve it. Trask accepts, and after hiding the money behind a painting, leaves his office for the night. Later that evening, building janitor Annester Norton discovers the money while on his rounds and absconds with it. The next day Aline Norton, the janitor's daughter and an unwitting pawn of the gamblers, appears at Trask's office with the necklace. Discovering that the money is missing, Trask goes to the casino to investigate and miraculously wins $30,000 with which he purchases the necklace. After placing the necklace in Lloyd's hands, Trask is shocked to discover that it is a fake. Entering the gambler's den, Trask retrieves the real necklace, which he restores to its rightful owner. Norton, repenting his theft, returns the money and Trask realizes that he loves the janitor's daughter.
- Here we show the process of saving the gold after the water is turned off. It is very simple, and consists of lifting the "riffle-boards" and scooping up the gold with an ordinary coal shovel. All this is shown, and the two great pans full of gold as it is piled up in view, and the plentiful $10.00 and $150.00 nuggets handled by the men in the picture are enough to arouse envy in the heart of a stone image.
- A wealthy old man is murdered after deciding to write his nephew out of his will. Fearing that he will be accused of the murder, his nephew takes flight, but with the help of a young woman whose life he saves, he sets out to try to track down the actual murderer.Votes24
- 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.Votes75
- David Garth, a country physician, earns only enough for a bare existence. His daughter, Winifred, takes care of their home. The doctor distrusts modern medical science and refuses to have anything to do with it. He is, naturally, infuriated when he learns that Kent, a young surgeon, has come to the village. The old man is further incensed when he learns that Winifred has taken a liking to Kent and refuses to meet him. Despite her father's prejudice Winifred and Kent become infatuated with each other and hold clandestine meetings. Dr. Garth falls into the snares of Shrubbs, a money lender. Shrubbs has a note of the doctor's and threatens to foreclose on the cottage. Tom, a servant of Garth's, steals the note from Shrubbs' office. Kent, in response to a letter from Winifred, leaves his office while Tom is committing the theft. The next morning the theft is discovered and Shrubbs offers $500 reward for anyone who will identify the thief. One of the townsfolk volunteers the information that Kent left the building late in the evening and the doctor corroborates the statement. Meanwhile Tom offers the note to Winifred and she tells him to return it. He leaves town at the same time Kent is accused of the robbery. Tom rushes back to Winifred and tells her of the arrest. They go to town to vindicate Kent. Tom declares his guilt and demands the $500 as a reward for finding the thief, himself. Shrubbs is compelled to pay and Kent makes him promise not to prosecute Tom. The doctor consents to the marriage of Kent and Winifred.
- Steve Frazer, a young cowpuncher on the Bar X Ranch, loved Madie, the winsome daughter of Chet Howard, the sheriff, and she was not indifferent to the manly cowboy. Loverlike, they had a post office in the mountains, among the rocks, and many little notes were exchanged between the happy pair. The mountains sheltered a pair of holdup men, who had long terrorized the country, and the cattlemen after a conference, decided to offer a reward for the capture, dead or a live, of the mysterious bandits. The notices were posted by the sheriff, but the depredations of the bandits continued, and one morning a ranchman, going home with a large amount of money, the payroll for his employees, was held up and robbed by one of the pair. The bandit escaped into the shelter of the mountain and by a strange coincidence cached the bag of gold in the lover's post office. Shortly after Steve Frazer rode up to get his accustomed note and found instead the bag of gold. Leaving the note and taking the gold, he hurries to the sheriff's home to report his discovery. A posse is formed and they start immediately for the scene of the holdup. In the meantime the bandit who committed the daring crime has sent his confederate, with minute instructions, to procure the gold cached in the lover's post office. He finds the place, but instead of the desired gold he finds a note: "If you love me as I love you, No knife can cut our love in two." Believing that his partner has duped him, he returns to the rendezvous and accuses him of double crossing him. This is denied emphatically, and together they return to the rock, but only find the note. Both are now thoroughly angry, and accusations against each other are fast and furious. "When thieves fall out, honest men get their dues," and forgetting where they are, start to fight. They are thus engaged when the posse come upon them and they are easily captured. The reward offered for their capture goes to Steve Frazer and he is now in a position to claim the winsome Madie Howard, and the culmination is a happy one.
- A retired judge comes West to restore a ghost town.Votes363
- Nanninella, a young girl, is exploited and abused by her father, whom she maintains with her waitress salary.Votes98
- A crime drama in the Gennariello-series. The police detective in Naples that is confronted with modern gangsters and crime events.
- The Coney Island Jockey Club's Suburban Handicap race was won by the three-year-old bay colt Africander, with the best and most seasoned horses in training at his heels. He took the lead in the stretch, and for the final quarter of a mile flew down the track at a pace that astonished the crowd. Africander won from Herbert by a head. Hunter Raine was third. None who witnessed the race will soon forget the finish. After the race, the camera revolved to the left, bringing into view the rider of Africander, seated in floral chain, and the cheering multitudes in the grand-stand.Votes23
- An amusing comic film in which Arabella endeavors to improve her property by building a railroad thereon. When the railway is opened the fun commences.
- Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
- 'Arriet Rogers, the daughter of a retired costermonger, Tom Rogers, has two very ardent suitors, Bill Larkin and Bob 'Armon. Bill is a sailor at the London docks and is a very steady young fellow. Bob, on the other hand, is not nearly so steady, but makes a lot of money betting on horses. In this way, by helping him rake in several good pots. Bob curries favor with old man Rogers, who promises him that he shall wed his daughter, 'Arriet. They are married in great style and look regular toffs on their wedding day, driving down Whitechapel in grand style. Bill is abroad in his ship and does not hear of the wedding until long afterwards. Luck is fickle and soon turns against Bob 'Armon, who loses not only all his own money, but all the savings of his father-in-law. Then he takes to drinking heavily and badly ill-treats his wife, who is about to present him with an heir. His drunken and thriftless habits are such that old man Rogers soon dies of a broken heart, leaving 'Arriet in the sole care of her now utterly brutal husband. Even after the birth of 'Arriet's baby, Bob continues his downward career. After a drunken row in a public house, in which he severely wounds a pot companion, he is obliged to flee the country and leaves his wife utterly penniless. 'Arriet has now no means of supporting herself and the baby and is reduced to such straits that she is obliged to beg in the streets, to save herself from starvation. One day, when soliciting alms in a public house, she meets Bill Larkin, who has just returned from a long voyage. She recognizes him, but so weak has she become from lack of food, that she is unable to bear the shock and sinks to the floor in a swoon. Bill has her carried to her home and sends for a doctor. It is too late, however, for starvation has so shattered her health that she dies the next day, after receiving Bill's promise that he will care for her child as if she were his own. Bill faithfully fulfills his vow for the sake of the little woman he so dearly loved,Votes15
- A coster couple cause trouble in a music hall gallery.
- Votes17
- Rawden, a lumberjack in the North woods, fights with crooked dance hall owner 'Ladyfingers' Hilgard over the affections of Babette DuFresne. Hilgard is killed. When Hilgard's mother and younger brother arrive in the remote logging town, Rawden attempts to ease their suffering by creating the fiction that Hilgard had been a well-loved man who died naturally. But when young Eric Hilgard learns the truth of his brother's death, he comes gunning for Rawden.Votes122
- Documentary film about the "Buffet" in Soseau Kiseleff - a house in Bucharest built in the Romanian style, art nouveau, being a project for the Paris exhibition of 1889, made by the architect Ion Mincu.
- This picture tells the story of Ralph Tillman, a clever United States Secret Service Agent and telegraph operator, who is instructed to report to the War Department. He is sent to General Sickles to become a northern spy. He chooses Frank Lyons, another telegraph operator to accompany him. Before leaving Washington, he calls upon his fiancée, Vera Colby, and tells her of his perilous assignment. In the South, Tillman meets Roxy, a beautiful waif, who understands telegraphy. She falls in love with him, but discovers that he is a Northern spy. She catches him telegraphing important news, covers him with her revolver and telegraphs to the Confederate camp that she has caught a spy. He tells her of his love in the North, and she permits him to escape. Tillman goes North to his sweetheart, finds her married, and returns South to bring love and happiness to Roxy.
- "A near view of the racing yacht Columbia as she dashed by the Committee boat during one of the International Cup Races with Shamrock I."
- "This picture shows the Columbia crossing the line, leading the Shamrock by about 1/2 mile. The Shamrock is plainly seen in the distance and she later comes up and crosses the line in the same picture."Votes116
- "A remarkably fine picture of a trial race between the Columbia and Defender. The boats are very close together and come directly towards the camera at high speed well heeled over by the wind. They turn on the mark in the picture and start off on the last leg of the race. This is one of the best yacht racing pictures we have ever been privileged to make."Votes22
- In this race the yachts cross the finishing line, as every one knows, under a nineteen-knot breeze. Our cameras are started while they are at a distance of about one-half mile and keep running until they cross the line. Both boats cross within twenty-feet of our camera and the effect is most stirring and interesting.
- Here we present a most remarkable view of the plucky challenger Shamrock and the defender Columbia. The yachts both pass and re-pass our camera in jockeying for the start, and we present a very close view and a most perfect photograph. The yachts finally make the start upon the firing of a gun and cross the line so close to our camera that we could have "tossed a biscuit" on the decks of either boat.
- This picture is the most dramatic of any of the series. It shows the complete maneuvers before starting and while crossing the line. The Columbia is seen putting about and executing the wonderful movement of Captain Barr to get into the Shamrock's wind. The Shamrock crosses the line a few seconds ahead of the Columbia, the Columbia having the leeward position. The boats were so close and so equally placed as to suggest one great composite single sticker, and Captain Barr cleverly comes about under the Shamrock's stern and gets across the line just a few seconds before the handicap gun, one minute and thirty-four seconds after the challenger. On going about the Columbia tacks a distance of about 300 yards from our camera and sails straight at us under a fifteen-knot breeze. The full height of the great mast and sails is over her deck. When she passes our camera she is not more than twenty-five feet away and the movements of the sailors as they scamper over the decks, pulling on the ropes and adjusting the great sails, make a most dramatic finish to the picture.
- This is the banner picture of them all and it almost defies description. The yachts crossing the line in this race follow tactics heretofore unknown in the cup races. As both boats went over the line the balloon topsails were shaken out and the spinnaker sails were set. The yachts were close to our camera when these sails were given to the winds, and the effect is most beautiful and adds one hundred per cent to the picture. Immediately the spinnakers and the balloon topsails catch the wind the yachts are seen to leap forward in the water as though propelled by steam. Our panoramic camera is here set in motion and the yachts are followed until they have almost passed out of sight.