Jerry Ross, the daughter of an East Side homemaker, decides to sell newspapers to earn money. She disguises herself as a boy, goes to one of the busiest street corners in the city, and soon captures the bulk of the business.
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To earn her own living, Jerry Ross dresses as a boy and sells newspapers on the street corner. As the result of a chance meeting with Frank Girard, who is interested in the "Big Brother Movement," Jerry is invited to Girard's farm in the country and later is sent to a coeducational institution where she assumes the dress and manners of a girl once more. Time passes and Jerry, the girl graduate, goes to Mexico to join her benefactor who is surprised to find that his Jerry is really a girl. The opposition of Girard's sister determines Jerry to leave Girard and Mexico, but she gets no further than the railroad station, for Girard has fallen in love with her and prevents her from leaving.
| Credited cast: | |||
 | Enid Bennett | - | Jerry Ross |
 | William Garwood | - | Franak Girard |
 | Josephine Headley | - | Janet Girard |
| Dorcas Matthews | - | Dulcie Hayes |
 | William Fairbanks | - | Dillon (as Carl Ullman) |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Thornton Edwards | - | Rival Newsboy |
In rehearsing the fight scene between Enid Bennett and Thornton Edwards, Edwards repeatedly stayed too far away from Bennett as she pretended to punch him. In exasperation, Bennett pulled Edwards in range and landed an uppercut to his jaw.