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The Heart of the Yukon Synopsis
A girl, Anita Wayne, finds herself an heiress of her mother's estate, but learns that her father lives in Alaska. Determined to find her father she travels to a mining town in the Klondike, but runs into "Cash" Gynon (a villainous saloon keeper) who claims to be her father. When the town drunkard, Old Skin Full, turns out to be her father, she is rescued by Jim Winston (a gold miner who recently discovered gold) when he fights Gynon who falls into a crevasse and dies.
Gift o' Gab Synopsis
Tom Bain was born with a tongue so glib that his parents, early in his career, predicted he would be a second Chauncey Depew. In college it developed until he was capable of selling Liberty Bonds in a poor house. But Tom was ambitious to be an inventor and so built a tunneling machine that "would start at one side of a mountain and propel itself through to the other without man's assistance." His gift of gab sold the rights to the machine to a big manufacturing firm, but they soon found it worthless and instead of building machines, Tom was placed on the payroll as a salesman. And then, after an exciting series of adventures, Tom finally wins the hand of Peggy, whom he had met and courted in his college days. The wedding occurs in a hospital where the couple meet accidentally as patients.
"The Heart of the Yukon" holds a slight edge in general audience appreciation, but "Gift o' Gab" offers its own unique cult appeal.
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The Heart of the Yukon