Author Archive: Retro

Little Nora is called the madcap of the village. She was not vicious, but merely mischievous, with her heart in the right place. Her madcap nature is not to be wondered at, as she was allowed to run wild, her mother being dead and her father a laborer. The school commissioners write to her father insisting that she be sent to school, and she would have been happy there if the scholars had not made her the butt of ridicule. This she strenuously resents and in her unhappy, lonesome condition, she listens to the flattery of a traveling street fakir, who would have succeeded in taking her away with him had not the school teacher, who saw in her a diamond in the rough, prevented it.

A well-dressed woman leaves her home and takes a carriage to a department store. While she is in the store, she steals several items, and is caught by store employees. Meanwhile, a poor woman with two small children steals a loaf of bread out of desperation, and she is quickly caught and arrested. Both women are taken to the police station and then into court, to see what penalty each of them must face.

The fact that an Indian tribe is eating puppies starts an action packed battle in a western town.

Both “Alkali” and “Mustang” Pete loved Betty Brown, and the lady had her hands full in keeping the lovers from shooting each other. One day “Alkali” called on Betty with a pair of handsome saddle horses and asked her to go riding with him. She agreed, but the resourceful “Mustang,” driving up with a handsome horse and carriage, carried off the lady. “Alkali” goes to the village inn, inclined to drink himself to death, but finally trades for an old junk automobile his two horses, and clambering in the seat, starts in pursuit of his rival and the lady. Overtaking them, he has no difficulty in persuading Betty to ride with him. But the auto breaks down and “Alkali,” endeavoring to fix it, turns on the juice and the rattle-trap car starts down the trail at lightning speed, leaving “Alkali” behind. After a thrilling and exciting ride the car is ditched and poor Betty is [...]