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- This is a beautiful stretch of railroad scenery along the Sacramento River in Upper California. The Southern Pacific crosses the Sacramento River nine times in this valley, and we show the reason for it in this picture, in which we round curves, pass great bluffs, and skirt the Sacramento River at one of its most picturesque points.
- After his company fails, Jack moves to the Northwest. He is happy in the wilderness with his love the quarter-breed Mary. His old thieving partner finds him and complications result.
- Up through the din and murk of the steel works, up by brawn and brain until he took his place behind the superintendent's desk came Jim Warren, but his heart was still with the strugglers in the glare of the furnaces. Here he had time to think and here he conceived the "big idea." The "big idea" required an established political position and he started out to get it. Francques, the henchman of Lewis, the political boss, saw in the young reformer a tool through which he could treacherously ruin his superior. Warren was running for the legislature as well as Lewis, and fortified with incriminating evidence against his opponent supplied by Francques, Warren entered the field as an independent candidate and was elected. Lewis took his defeat calmly and made friendly overtures to the newly elected member. Through the influence of Lewis, Warren was invited to visit the speaker of the House, Mr. Tillinghast. Here he was introduced to the girl of his life; the girl he had first seen, as a curious child visitor at the steel works. Several other times fate brought them together. It had been a secret love and he was astounded when he learned from her own lips that she was engaged to marry Lewis. Lewis's wedding to Edna was to occur as soon as Tillinghast was elected governor of the state. Edna admired Lewis and thought she loved him until one day after a talk with Jim Warren she realized the sordid contrast to which she, her father, and Lewis were parties. She told her father that she would not marry Lewis and remained firm in her decision against every argument that her ambitious parent offered. From that moment Warren battled for two loves, the love of a woman and the love of truth. Lewis, behind a smiling face, plotted Warren's undoing. Bribes came from every source. Marked bills, stocks and bonds were lavished by the clique upon the supposed unsuspecting assemblyman. At last they thought the trap ready to spring. He was arrested. He trembled not but unafraid played the last card of his high hand. He calmly led his captors to the vaults of the National Bank and there neatly docketed each in its separate envelope under seal of the bank were the bribes untouched together with the names of the givers and evidence that sent many of them to prison cells. The newspapers went wild. Jim Warren played the game and he was the man of the hour. Weeks later when the state convention had just gone wild over the nomination of Warren for governor, he and Edna were talking. "I think," said Edna, "that as long as I can't be the daughter of the governor, that I will be far happier as the governor's wife."
- New York: The Manhattan, a large ferryboat, is smashed when a tramp steamer crashes into her stern during dense fog. Charleston, S.C: Troops, marines and bluejackets march in gorgeous line at the Southern Commercial Congress. Visitors are received aboard warships in Charleston harbor. Omaha, Neb: The Greater Omaha Roller Skate Hockey Team demonstrates lively playing on concrete walks. New York: Ruling granting steamers of alleged German interests freedom of the seas allows the Winneconne to depart for Norway. Sacramento, Cal: George A. Powell, a jeweler of this city, is frequently compelled to explain that he is not President Wilson. Cincinnati, O: Long struggle between organized baseball and Federal League ends in agreement. James A. Gilmore's Federal League goes out of existence. Charles Weeghman becomes owner of Cubs. Mantoloking Beach, N.J: Pere d'Alemquer, a Portuguese bark, after safely crossing the Atlantic, is beached where wind and waves pound her severely. Lynnfield, Mass: Forest creeks on the estate of J.H. Pierce are dynamited to prevent forest fires. William H. Vanderbilt, an explosive expert, exhibits his contempt for danger. New York: The summit of the Hotel Biltmore becomes a frozen garden, attracting many devotees of skating. Fancy skaters perform difficult and graceful feats on the smooth ice. Venice, Cal: Bellowing breakers besiege beautiful beach, battering the bare borderland and being bumped back.
- Young Lois Brandon is about to have her home foreclosed if she doesn't come up with some money. She enters her horse, Atta Boy, in a big-money race, hoping the win will enable her to pay off the mortgage and save her home.
- Buckskin Hamilton guides a wagon train across the wasteland, caring well for the pioneers he escorts, but hoping to solve the murder of his brother by one of the travellers.
- Chan Wang, boatman on the Hoang-Ho, is forced to marry Chan Lee, when his beloved, Loey Tsing, is sold to Kuey Lar, a rich merchant in San Francisco. Soon a son, Chan Toy, is born to Chan Lee. In San Francisco, Wang meets his former sweetheart and arouses the jealousy of her owner, who entices Chan's wife and son to his home, where the boy falls from a window and is killed. In revenge, Wang kills the abductor of his former love and the destroyer of his firstborn; then, in final submission, he returns to his native land with Loey Tsing.
- Gambler Oak Miller seeks revenge on the man who misused his sister Rose, who is ill and under the care of the woman Oak loves, Barbara. The man Oak seeks, Granger, is planning to rob a wagon train with the collusion of the Indians under Chief Long Knife. When Barbara's brother is accused of killing her lascivious stepfather, Oak takes the blame and is arrested just before he is needed to save the threatened wagon train.
- Paul Ellison, who falls in love with Elsa, exchanges identities with his twin, Arthur, because he feels himself responsible for his brother's downfall, and assumes guilt for a murder. Five years later Elsa meets Arthur, whom she believes to be Paul, and they become engaged. In Rangoon, Paul is recognized by Elsa and Craig, a gambler. Though Paul confesses to the crime, Craig, in his dying moments, admits he is the real murderer. Elsa and the two brothers are then reconciled.
- Millie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Her grandfather fled there for political reasons. But they're not alone. An escaped prisoner, Nicholas, is terrorizing them, and further more, he's interested in Mllie. John Woolfolk has lost his wife in an accident and tries to forget by sailing in his yacht aimlessly on the ocean. By chance he drops anchor in a bay of that island. He soon finds out that something is wrong on that island, and furthermore, he falls in love with Millie, who sees in him a chance to get off that island. But Nicholas has threatened her with rape and murder if she tries to escape, and he has found out about her plans...
- After his beloved daughter leaves for the city to pay off his debt, an old farmer goes mad when her letters become less frequent and it is suspected she may be using her body to get the money.
- "In the days of the California Gold Rush of '49, Sandy is at odds with his partner, Falloner, over the latter's heavy drinking. Falloner is killed by Lasham, who many years before ran off with Falloner's wife. Sandy brings Falloner's children, Cissy and Jimmy, and their Aunt Betsey to Sacramento from Missouri. He then sets out to find the mother and to avenge his partner's death. Lasham induces Betsey to take the night boat for Sandy Bar with him, under the pretense of finding the children's mother. Sandy rides after them and swims to the steamer, arriving in time to save a frightened Betsey from Lasham. In a fight, Lasham is knocked overboard and drowns. The mother, who under the name Madame Le Blanc has been living with Lasham, helping him with his gambling and other nefarious schemes, becomes a novice in a convent. Sandy and Betsey are wed"--AFI catalog, 1921-1930.
- During the Revolution Princess Vera, though betrothed to Prince Dimitri, is attracted to the peasant Feodor.
- The effete son of a cantankerous riverboat captain comes to join his father's crew.
- Breck Coleman leads hundreds of settlers in covered wagons from the Mississippi River to their destiny out West.
- A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder.
- The arrival of the telegraph put Pony Express riders like John Blair and his pal Smoky out of work. A race will decide whether they or Stageline owner Drake get the government mail contract.
- A fictionalized account of the early life of the American president as a young lawyer facing his greatest court case.
- A Texas cattle agent witnesses first hand, the brutal lawlessness of Dodge City and takes the job of sheriff to clean the town up.
- To avoid his abusive father, a rambunctious boy rafts the Mississippi River with a slave, encountering many wild characters.
- During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.
- Profiles the migration habits of geese.
- The development of the railroad line in Sacramento, California, and all the jobs related with the building, operating and controlling the railway service.
- At a tough penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins plans to rebel against Captain Munsey, the power-mad chief guard.
- During the Cold War, at a California atomic research plant, an FBI agent and a Scotland Yard inspector join forces to eliminate a foreign atomic spy ring operating in the USA and the UK.
- Frank Bigelow, told he's been poisoned and has only a few days to live, tries to find out who killed him and why.
- The rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.
- The former employee of a trucking company, currently in prison for embezzlement, plans his eventual revenge against his former boss.
- At California's Folsom Prison, escape attempts and riots are on the rise due to the old-school sadistic style of management of a brutal warden.
- His ship seized by the Chinese Communists, American Merchant Captain Tom Wilder languishes in prison but Chinese villagers help him escape to sail them to Hong-Kong.
- High-school teens in San Francisco decide to compete in the Mopbilgas "Safety Economy Run", sponsored by the General Petroleum Co., a supervised economy run around the San Francisco area, to show that teenagers aren't the wild and irresponsible drivers that many adults assume them to be.
- In the 1950s, a poor Georgia cotton farmer and his sons search for the gold presumably buried on the farm by their great-grandfather, but problems related to poverty, infidelity, unemployment, and booze threaten to destroy their family.
- A woman whose past is scorned by nearly everyone around her meets a man who'd love her regardlessly- if only everyone else would allow them to.
- Mark Twain's 1851 story about two runaway friends, a fostered white boy and an escaped black slave, who sailed on a raft down the Mississippi River in search of freedom and adventure.
- Political drama about a honest but naive gubernatorial candidate who is manipulated by his corrupt campaign manager and is forced to temporarily cede power to his wife, a woman of integrity despite her shameful past.
- "Diver Dan" was a hosted children's show with Norman Bales as "Diver Dan".
- "Mystery Mansion " was a hosted horror movie show with H. Alan Sims as "Alan", hosting horror movies on KXTV Channel 10 in Sacramento, California, USA.
- Expository internal affairs drama which brings to light the often unprincipled tactics used in negative "smear" campaigning, and its effects within the political arena.
- As the Nobel Prize winners come to Stockholm to receive their awards, their lives are overturned and perturbed in various ways.
- Jim Slattery enters the state legislature, hopeful that he can make a difference. He finds dealing with endless rules and the majority opposition party frustrates any meaningful change but he stubbornly perseveres.
- Dynamic young state legislator James Slattery finds himself in an extremely uncomfortable position when he is chosen to investigate Representative Harry Sanborn, an older, well-respected colleague, who is accused of deliberately sabotaging a local bill.
- A laid-back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.
- Claire Brennen stars as a waitress who leaves the greasy-diner business for the excitement of the carnival. She quickly discovers that she despises freaks and human oddities.
- An unhappily married socialite finds solace in the company of a recently divorced doctor.
- An unscrupulous doctor is accused of killing his asthmatic wife as part of an insurance scam, despite discovering that she has a doppelgänger who works as a stripper and call girl.
- "The Bob Wilkins Double Horror Show" was a hosted horror movie show with Bob Wilkins presenting horror movies on KXTL Channel 40, Sacramento, California from 1970-1978.
- "Mr. Al's Storytime" was a hosted children's show with H. Alan Sims as "Mr. Al" on KXTV Channel 10 in Sacramento, California, USA, airing in the late 1960's or early 1970's.