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- In the mountains of Kentucky, Violet Kruger repels the advances of bootlegger Jed Keith, while purchasing liquor at the behest of her drunkard father, Ben. She returns home and smashes the jug of whiskey in a fit of anger, incurring Ben's wrath. Judge Willie Hoyt and his wife rescue Violet and send her to a boarding school on the Hudson River. She later marries Allen Grey, a student at the U.S. Military Academy, but their happiness is threatened by Jed, who tries in vain to claim Violet for himself. After Ben is mortally wounded by Jed, he reveals that Violet is really the daughter of socially prominent and wealthy parents, who lost her to a Gypsy when she was only a child.
- A city man's rest in the country is so upsetting he returns home.
- Grethe decides to go the big city to find a job as a domestic help.
- A doctor's adopted son turns out to be an ungrateful whelp. He beds the doctor's maid, then his secretary, and finally targets the doctor's wife--his own stepmother--as his next conquest.
- In an attempt to try and tame young city girl Charlotte Rowland, Bill Coryell, a young rancher, plans a fake kidnapping party from which he is to rescue her. However, a bully interferes and incites her against Bill, but Charlotte discovers the ruse in time to save herself and Coryell.
- Released from prison on parole, the "Gas-Pipe Kid" returns to his home in the slums to find his mother dead and his father evicted. He is arrested for beating up the landlord but escapes with the help of Ida Hunt, his sweetheart. Years later he is a baseball star known as Bat Shugrue and is widely idolized by boys who read about his clean living. When Shugrue realizes his influence, he refuses to "throw" a game for blackmailers who threaten to reveal his past, and he goes to Judge Drury to tell the whole truth. The judge decides that Shugrue is more valuable free than in jail; the star is reunited with Ida.
- Laura Parker, a young wife, is being pursued by an old college sweetheart, wealthy Martin Sheldon, who doesn't care that she's married. Sheldon is unaware that his daughter Ruth--who is married to a young lawyer--has fallen for "Count" Lorenz, a criminal, and plans to leave her husband for him. Complications ensue.
- Randolph Adams, a medical student, and his friend, Ned Hastings, have lost their way while on a hunting trip in the north. In a cabin which they enter by chance, Adams' medical skill is called upon to save a sick child. In response to Noah Redstone, the master of the cabin's, question, "Why do you go about killing things when you can spend your time saving human lives?" a change comes over him, and realizing the thrill of being able to relieve suffering, he decides to devote his life to the work. Later he enters the Red Cross service in France,leaving the children's hospital he has erected in the care of a friend. He is reported dead, and his wife is about to accept Hastings' offer of marriage when Adams appears on the scene, having spent some time in a hospital abroad recovering from an injury. Just at the moment his mother is pronounced dead from an automobile accident. But refusing to give her up without effort, he hurriedly puts a new respiratory invention to work and succeeds in saving her life. The story closes with a happy reunion.
- "Windy" Watkins is fond of spinning wild stories of his daring exploits, to his fellow cowhands, while around the campfire at night but is given the chance to prove he is more than talk when Bill Spray and his henchmen set their sights on a gold claim belonging to the father of his sweetheart, Eunice Hollis.
- Helen Frazer marries Harold Lawton to please her domineering grandmother. However, Harold continues his dalliance with chorus girl Letty Lorraine, and embezzles $25,000 from his employer, Howard Hendricks, to support her luxurious tastes. To protect her son, Helen enters into a financial agreement with Howard, who hopes to win her from Harold. One year later, after Harold has squandered the stolen money, he kills his employer. Helen is arrested, and as the jury announces a guilty verdict, Harold bursts into the courtroom, confesses to the crime, and swallows poison, leaving Helen free to find happiness with her loyal attorney, Alfred Emerson.
- A documentary following the lap people in Northern Norway. Their daily hard work through the year.
- Reymat is killed during an aerobatic exhibition in a plane. Hélène, his fiancée, to forget her grief, decides to become an aviator.
- An adventurer tries to marry into a rich family. But the beautiful heiress he courts is in love with a young painter, which is not to the schemer's liking. As a result, the evil man tries to get rid of his rival by throwing him into a ravine but he fails and falls to his death instead of the young man.