Tag Archives: 1910s

Harold is starving since he has no money to buy food. He may even fight a young starving girl and her starving dog for a morsel.

She’s a chorus girl in unpaid tryouts for a Broadway show, behind in her rent, about to be evicted.

The mining town of Peaceful Vale is a rough place, and sheriff ‘Gun Shy’ Gallagher can do little about it, since the town is ruled by Crooked Charley, the gambler.

At 10 years old, Owens becomes a ragged orphan when his sainted mother dies.

After the old-books shop closes, portraits of the Strumpet, Death, and the Devil come to life and amuse themselves by reading stories–about themselves, of course, in various guises and eras.

Cortez sends Alvarado to Montezuma who throws him into a dungeon from which he is rescued by Tecza who loves him.

A young couple attempts to elope, with the bride’s irate father in hot pursuit.

A young working girl must suport her family on only five dollars a week.

The comfortable and amiable Daniel Boone Brown, a resident of New York’s water front, becomes the victim of a mad scientist’s psychological experiments.