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A little old lady dies, leaving her estate, consisting of a sanitarium for aging ladies, to Tom Faxton, a young man who rescued her when her automobile went out of control. At the rest home he meets Edith Oliver and woos her away from a neglectful boyfriend, Evan Carmichael, while Buck, Tom's sidekick, elopes with the establishment's housekeeper.

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Philo McCullough, Tom Mix, and Gertrude Olmstead in Ladies to Board (1924)

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