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His I.O.U. ()

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  • Genres: ,
  • Release: 1915-07-16
  • Director: N/A
  • Writers: N/A
  • Language: None | English
  • Stars: Mildred Manning , W. Ray Johnston , Morgan Niblack , Daniel Keleher
  • Runtime: min
  • Awards: N/A
  • AKA: His I.O.U. , His I.O.U. (United States of America)
  • Plot: The little newsgirl had never heard of widowed mothers' pensions and if anyone told her that the state should contribute to the support of the little family she would have been very much surprised. Ever since her father was killed in an accident she and her mother worked hard to provide food and shelter for themselves and the girl's little baby brother. A small boy in an orphan asylum concluded to run away. No one in the big institution cared about him and he determined to seek his fortune in the big world. He found the world altogether too big and unfeeling, but he found one sympathizer and friend, the little newsgirl. She listened with great interest to his story and then invested fifty cents of her well-earned money in newspapers for the waif. Under her guidance he started his career as a full-fledged seller of the daily news, but his vocation was short lived for an uncle, who had just learned of the death of the boy's parents appeared and took the youngster away to his handsome home. All the little girl had to remember her young friend by was an I.O.U. in boyish handwriting for the fifty cents she had advanced him. The boy had been so excited over his new prospects that he had forgotten to repay his debt. The girl grew to womanhood and secured permission from the city to conduct a newsstand at a busy corner. A political hanger-on, envying the girl's success, induced the mayor to give him the newsstand privilege at that street corner, and the girl was dispossessed. She had no friends to turn to and only a peculiar discovery enabled her to triumph over her opponent. In a newspaper she read an account of the rise to power of a young state senator and recognized in the statesman the boy she befriended. When she called at his office he did not remember her name and refused to see her, so she literally took her life in her hands in a daring attempt to get to his office. She succeeded and presented the tattered I.O.U. to her acquaintance of years ago. The young senator recalled the debt, and after he listened to her story, called up the mayor on the phone and angrily ordered him to restore the newsstand privilege to the girl. The young man was a power in politics and the mayor meekly obeyed. So the childhood friendship of man and girl was renewed and in time it ripened into love. The little newspaper stand passed into other hands while its former owner presided over the senator's house. The senator and his wife are often asked by their children the meaning of the I.O.U. signed with the senator's name, but only tender smiles have rewarded their earnest questions.
  • IMDB:tt0474158
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