A short 1897 actuality depicting a Southern Pacific Railroad train with a mail car exiting a tunnel.

Sambo Sam sets out to round up German spies, but his bungling leads him to a fraternal organization just itching to have some fun at the would-be sleuth’s expense.

Kitty questions whether leaving her station master husband to pursue a singing career was the right choice.

Mr. Burton spends six years abroad leaving his daughters behind. He returns with a new wife but has forgotten that the girls have grown up and might not want a new mother.

A horse-drawn streetcar magnate could lose his franchise to Jitney Jim’s motorbus.

Lucie falls in love with a man who is secretly the nephew of the aristocrat who condemned her father to decades of imprisonment in the Bastille.

An honest one-armed beggar gets a less than honest artificial limb — one with kleptomaniacal tendencies that land him in jail.

Father kidnaps a husband for his daughter when he learns that she stands to inherit $3,000,000 on condition of her marriage.

Ruth finds herself speeding to what could be an untimely grave on a runaway boxcar.

An oil syndicate tries to buy oil-rich land from a destitute farmer before he discovers what it is really worth.