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- Fred is constantly hanging around automobile row and as time passes he becomes a nuisance. One day while loitering around the different garages he sees the racing cars starting for the tracks trying out for the Santa Monica Road Race. In order to mingle with the drivers, Fred purchases some driver's clothes and goes to the tracks. There he meets Barney Oldfield. Earle Cooper and other famous drivers, who encourage him by talking to him. When returning home Fred decides he will ask father for a car. He does. Father calls for the "Speed Bear," an antique, and has it delivered for Fred. He is very proud. He takes pictures of it in order to supply all his friends. That night he hears that the automobile club is holding its weekly dinner, and now that he is an owner, he decides to attend. He arrives late, but manages to show all the guests and members his new machine. After several intrusions, the boys frame Fred to enter his car in the races. Fred falls for it, and takes his car to the tracks the next day. The boys tell Fred that this is the day of the real road race and he has his machine in fine shape. The boys start him off on the course accompanied by other cars and drivers. Fred takes desperate chances on death curves and down the home stretch. He wins the Santa Monica Race, in his mind, for it is really held the next day. A friend of Fred's has heard of the race just on, so he warns Fred and the two lose no time in getting to the track. They just get in the front of the stand, as Cooper wins the race. The crowd tries to chase Fred from the track, but he will not go until he can be accompanied by some of the other cars. They all leave. On the way one of the racing machines breaks down and has to pay Fred real money to be drawn home. Everything is going fine until they run on the second car. He offers Fred more money than the first, so Fred thinks that a fair exchange is no robbery. He drops the first unfortunate, and picks up the second, leaving number one on the road cursing. Finally when Fred arrives home he finds father uneasy, but easily quieted when he looks at Fred's roll, and finds Fred willing to divide.
- Strolling through the streets one day, Fred meets a trained nurse. She doesn't encourage flirting outside the hospital, but once inside, she condescends to give him a smile. Instantly Fred starts to scheme how to see her again. An idea strikes him. He will take poison. His intentions are good, but the drug clerk is suspicious, and substitutes milk for carbolic acid, of which Fred drinks. He falls in the street, but finding he only drank milk, he has to scheme some more. He goes to his club and there meets his pals, who swear secrecy. They go to the street and bribe a chauffeur to run over him. They drive to a quiet country road and get everything in readiness. Fred gathers all his courage and stands in the road. The machine comes up, but Fred's heart fails him. He promises if they will try once more he will keep his word. Once again he jump's away only to let the machine go past. He is given one more chance. This time he waits until the machine passes, then falls in the road. His companions load him into the machine and take him to the hospital. Arriving at the hospital he is taken to a ward, where he meets his nurse. Everything is lovely until the club boys call on him and see the nice nurse. At once an epidemic hits the dub. The members one by one take sick. Fred gets worse in order to have more attention. His nurse holds a hot water bottle to his head, and leaves to attend the other patients. As soon as she is gone, Fred lights a cigarette and removes the bottle. Everything is fine until the nurse comes back. His first idea is to get rid of the cigarette. The only hiding place is under the covers. There it goes. It sets fire to the bed clothing, whereupon Fred takes flight down the hall only to be captured by the doctors and his nurse, who "squares" it by saying he is out of his mind. The other boys arrive and are given wards. That night, when all is quiet, the boys start on a tour of the hospital. They find the nurses in the sun room dancing. The boys join them. The grouchy old doctor, when making his rounds, hears what is going on and decides to fix the matter up. He discharges all the nice nurses, and puts the scrub women in their places. Next morning when the boys wake up, they find the scrub women holding their hands: "take their pulse." They all feel better instantly. There is an exodus of club members from the hospital. And what of Fred and the prettiest nurse? Well, they figured in the funny finish, never fear.
- Baron Nuisance accompanied by his valet, Bud Duncan, arrive at the hotel, where they are given the best suite in the place. The baron, preferring the air rather than stopping in a close room, soon decides to go out for his afternoon walk, leaving Bud in charge of the suite. Bud, on the other hand, does love to be quiet, so naturally becomes riled when the nice looking maid calls with more linen prior to her leaving for the afternoon. During the afternoon the baron meets what he thinks is a society girl, but later proves to be the chambermaid. When time comes for the parting, he insists on taking his friend home, but she declines his request and the only consolation he can get is her name and address, which he writes on his cuff. The baron arrives home very tired from the afternoon's excitement; his valet is awaiting him. He is put to bed to await his evening engagement, but while he sleeps his valet sends his laundry away, including the shirt with the girl's address on the cuff. When the baron finds the address and the shirt gone, he and his valet start in a hurried chase for the shirt. They first come to a laundry wagon, which they put to shame. Finding nothing but soiled linen they go to a near-by Chinese laundry and cannot make the Chinaman understand their wants, so they proceed to hunt on their own accord. During the excitement the Chinamen are given a rough deal. They call in the police force, who meet with many accidents while the baron and Bud are wrecking the laundry. Finally the police force get on the job, but just at the same time the baron and Fred have run out of ammunition, so they resort to some starch buckets which the police receive in the face. In the battle the baron is hit in the eye with his own shirt, which he quickly notices. He and Bud soon desert the place for the address on the cuff. The cops give chase. The boys think they can get free by crawling up under a bridge spanning the river and beat the cops to the other side: but the cops find a short way over and decide to meet them half way. They do and there comes the downfall. The boys hide behind the posts and as the cops pass they push them out. After all the cops have fallen Bud and the baron are looking on with amusement, when they lose their balance and join the others, where they are taken captives.
- Fred returns to his Los Angeles home to find his wife caring more for her dog than the care of the house. He decides to leave for the east and rid himself of such surroundings. Packing in a hurry, "Bud," the valet, by mistake gets one of Mrs. Fred's gowns. The wife, hearing them making their escape, goes to investigate and discovers her gown missing. She immediately comes to the conclusion that her husband has flown with another woman. She decides to go to mother in New York. Unfortunately, hubby and wifey catch the same train. While enjoying the scenery on the observation car, Bud flirts with a girl, whom Fred also flirts with. Bud plans revenge. He places Mrs. Fred's gown in Fred's seat. Fred loses the charmer and the valet gets a sound thrashing. Bud starts a search for a new girl and is very successful. This time he becomes friendly with a blonde beauty. Fred is unaware of the valet's doings until arriving at Albuquerque, where Bud is once more discovered by Fred, he is forced to give up for the second time. On their arrival at Chicago. Fred takes the blonde to dinner. His wife receives an invitation to dine and decides that if her husband can flirt, so can she, and she has the same privilege. She accepts the invitation. On returning to the train. Fred discovers his wife getting aboard with her friend and, mad with jealousy, he joins them, only to be rejected by Mrs. Fred. Then Mrs. Fred lays hands on her hubby's train acquaintance. It is some mix-up. When it is over, Fred and wifey, arriving in New York at the mother's house, are stunned to see a "To Let" sign on the house and learn that she has gone to California to visit her daughter.
- The editor and business manager of the "Modern Magazine," while riding in a street car, have a list of names before them, and one suggests to the other that he "kill these." They are overheard by a fellow passenger, an amateur detective, who does not know that the phraseology "kill 'em" means to strike their names from the list. The passenger (Fred Mace), is the raw sleuth. When they leave the car he follows them and picks up the list that they have dropped. This enables him to notify each one that he was a "marked man." He saw the magazine men look at pistols in a store window, and after they had bought one he followed them to a place of seclusion where they practiced shooting at a target, which happened to be the end of a dry goods box, behind which the sleuth had concealed himself, doing a bit of good comedy work. The "marked men," accompanied by a policeman, finally round up the editor and his companion, who explain the full significance of "kill 'em" and make clear that the editor had bought the pistol for his brother, in the west. The business manager then gave the delinquent subscribers bills, in full to date, and the policeman made them pay, against their will. By this time, the amateur detective had become the center of interest, likewise of action, and before he emerged from the melee, he had been reduced to something that looked like an infringement on a jello pudding. He finally pulled himself together, getting away from the scene with speed.