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- Professor Sturgess invents a miraculous engine which can draw unlimited power from the atoms of the air. When the professor is killed, his daughter and her fiance must fight to keep the secret of the power engine out of the hands of evil Weston Dore and his henchmen.
- The daughter of a Kentucky colonel returns from her European finishing school to help prove his innocence as he is accused of killing a major with whom he had a feud over money.
- 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.
- "Gul-Y-Hanar," the first of the thousand and one stories told by Scheherazade, concerns itself with this beautiful Princess, who through a series of mishaps, finds herself at the mercy of a heathen Sultan. The Sultan's son, who had been converted to the God Allah, falls in love with the Princess - and for this both are ordered to be executed when a miracle happens that saves them both from death. The lovers are separated, and only after many weird and exciting incidents are they reunited to live their lives in peace and happiness.
- The daughter of man who owns a South Seas pearl business falls in love with a wealthy traveler. Her father dies, leaving her the business. A greedy ship captain schemes to take the business from her.
- Lt. Tom Brennan is cashiered from the 7th Cavalry on two charges, both unjust: that of deserting his men in the face of a cruel Indian attack, and of entertaining a married woman in his quarters after hours. Tom wanders into the desert and is picked up half-dead by Yuba Bill, a prospector with whom he goes into partnership. The Indians go on the warpath, and Tom rides to the fort and warns the colonel. Tom's innocence is established by the confession of an enlisted man, and Tom is reinstated to the service with full honors, renewing his engagement with Margaret Cranston.
- Millowner Lem Bassett uses his foreman, Dave Trask, whose power among the people in the neighborhood is great, to obtain their land so that he can build a bigger dam for water power, flooding the lands above it. One of these people finds that Bassett has tricked him, and he demands recompense. When it is refused, Dave leads a group of men to dynamite the dam. In the path of the waters is Bassett's home, where Dave's crippled daughter has been taken so that a famous specialist retained by Tom Bassett, nephew of Lem (who loves Dave's sister), may operate. Dave saves the child and Tom, and Bassett agrees to surrender.
- Thunder Cloud, a member of the Sioux Nation and a college graduate, goes into hiding, believing he has slain a villainous white man named Bill Mosher. Although he steals to survive, Thunder Cloud always leaves money or a promissory note for what he takes. The young Sioux falls in love with Starlight, the half-breed daughter of Sheriff La Verne, and abducts her during an Indian Fair. They are followed to his hideout by Little Antelope, the adopted son of white parents who is now a member of the Indian Police. Thunder Cloud recognizes Little Antelope as his younger brother, but is unable to avoid arrest. At the trial, it is revealed that Mosher is alive and was attempting to frame Thunder Cloud. After he is set free, Starlight quits her teaching job to marry him.
- Heroic Officer 444 battles The Frog and his criminal gang for possession of Haverlyte, a powerful formula that, if it fell into the wrong hands, would give its owner enough power to control the world. Taking no chances, The Frog sends his chief henchwoman, a seductive vamp named The Vulture, to tempt Officer 444 to stray from his sworn duty to save the world from The Frog's nefarious plans.
- U.S. Government surveyor John Field suspects Nanette, the adopted daughter of Cavalry-Major Webb, of being a spy and disclosing government secrets to the Sioux tribe, in their war against the whites. The Sioux attack and Field sees Nanette talking to an Indian, Eagle Wing during the attack. Field and Eagle Wing fight and the latter is killed. Field brings his body to the fort and Major Webb sees that it is long-lost black-sheep son who has turned renegade. Nanette then tells Field that she has been giving Eagle Wing money to keep him quiet and not disgracing her benefactor. Major Webb then reveals, in flashback, that Nanette is not a Sioux but a white girl kidnapped by the Sioux as an infant. Field then asks Nanette to marry him.
- Collegian Angelica "Trix" Varden, willful daughter of William Varden, after a midnight spread of lobster and ice cream, has a dream about an adventure on her father's ranch involving her horse Beverly, one Jack Norton, and Buck Barlow's gang of rustlers. She is expelled from school and returns home to find a handsome new foreman, who is none other than Jack Norton. Trix's curiosity is aroused by her dream, and she finds evidence of rustlers. Barlow shows up, and she locks herself in a cabin and sends Jack's horse, Star, for help. Jack finally defeats Barlow in a fight, and the two horses "realize" that they now have both a master and a mistress.
- Richard Kingsley, son of a financier, trying to aid Marjorie Crenshaw and her sister during a raid on a New York roadhouse, is arrested. His father, enraged by the bad publicity, threatens to disinherit him if he doesn't go to Colorado in search of a mine. While traveling west, Richard meets a group of chorus girls and has his pocket picked by their manager. Without funds, he continues on foot; he meets Kinkaid, a bandit who has stolen $5,000 from Marjorie Crenshaw's father. Richard recognizes that Kinkaid's horse is the one stolen from his father and demands it be returned. Kinkaid gives him the horse but forces Richard to exchange clothes with him. Now mistaken for Kinkaid, Richard must flee from the posse but first uses altruistically the $5,000 he finds in Kinkaid's clothing. Kinkaid, missing the money, backtracks in search of Dick but instead meets Marjorie, whom he tries to seduce. Richard arrives in time to save her and takes her home, where her father believes him to be the bandit who robbed him. All complications are straightened out when Richard's father arrives and identifies his son; Dick discovers the mine; and Marjorie discovers that she loves Dick.
- Dick MacLean, a member of the Northwest Mounted Police, is mortally wounded and, with his dying breath, asks Larry McGee, a friend and fellow Mountie, to take care of Haida, an Indian girl who is bearing Dick's child. Finding her in childbirth, apparently on the point of death, Larry marries her to give the child a name. Haida recovers, however, and a sobered Larry rides after Black Logan, a notorious desperado. Larry brings Logan in, and Haida commits suicide, freeing Larry to marry Ruth MacLean, Dick's sister and his longtime sweetheart.
- The Algerian consul solicits the aid of the Chief of the Secret Service in the apprehension of the sultan's brother, Abdullah, who has fled with the royal harem and the royal jewels to the United States. The chief assigns Peggy, his most reliable feminine operative, to the case. Newspaperman Hal Tracy, Peggy's sweetheart, is on the scene when Peggy attempts to arrest Abdullah. In the ensuing fight, Hal is thrown overboard, and Peggy, for the first time in her life forgetting her duty, dives in after him. She follows Abdullah to his mountain hideout and later gains entrance to his harem in the guise of an Algerian woman. Her position becomes more perilous each night, and she finds herself struggling with Abdullah just as Hal arrives with help. Abdullah is arrested, and the jewels are recovered. Peggy and Hal are denied permission to marry, since the chief has another assignment for Peggy.
- Army Lieutenant Harris (Ben F. Wilson), and Lieut. Willet, stationed at a western army post are both in love with the daughter, Evelyn (Neva Gerber), of the post commander, Colonel Brower (Jim Welch). Willet accuses Haris of being in league with the unfriendly Indian tribes, and has him jailed. During an attack on the post, Harris if freed to help in the fight against the Indians. Willet is killed and Harris is charged with murder.
- Aviator Lt. Al Willis returns home from combat duty to find his father, cotton farmer Jim Willis, in jail for the murder of neighbor Jud Blair, a crime actually committed by dance hall owner Melvin Parker. Al purchases an airplane with a fellow veteran and they embark on a barnstorming tour, all the while looking for clues to find the real murderer. At a bullfight in Mexico, Melvin's sweetheart, Sybil, becomes infatuated with Al and betrays her lover. Melvin flees in an automobile, but Al flies after him, leaps from his airplane into the speeding car, and overcomes his adversary. Jim is set free and Al weds their late neighbor's daughter, Anne Blair, in an airplane far above the clouds.
- A story in which the hero, after serving sentence for another's crime, seeks to go away with heroine. He must first obtain papers which gang leader holds concerning her father, and in getting them again falls in leader's power. He beats him up and escapes. Leader again seeks to frame him, and kidnaps girl. Hero overtakes them, beats up villain and clears girl's father.
- Roderick Drew and his native hunters discover a map to a gold treasure in the hands of a skeleton, but they are being hunted by a man who shoots golden bullets.
- Richard Dunbar gets into a fight with a crooked gambler and hits his opponent so hard that the latter falls, apparently dead. Dunbar takes flight and eventually drifts into a lumber camp in Oregon, where he falls in love with Betty Allison and arouses the wrath of one of Betty's suitors, the foreman of the camp. The foreman challenges Dunbar to a fight, but Dunbar remembers the consequences of his last fight and, instead of hitting back at the foreman, leaves the camp in disgrace. Dunbar later learns that the man he thought he had killed is still alive, and he returns to the lumber camp just in time to rescue Betty from death in a house on fire. Dunbar then beats the foreman in a fight and wins Betty for his wife.
- A ranch foreman captures a notorious gang of gold thieves. He ties them up and leaves them for a pursuing posse while he goes out to find the gold they stole. When the posse arrives, the gang's leader convinces them that the foreman is actually the gold thief, and the posse sets out in pursuit of him.
- Terry Baldwin inherits a ranch under the stipulation that he finds the ghost that haunts it.