Brief scene shows former President of Mexico, General Victoriano Huerta (entitled "Dictator of Mexico" on film slate) looking through binoculars with other officers in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. Scene shifts to the new President of Mexico, General Venustiano Carranza, seen walking with several other men along a railroad track on a harbor pier.
28th Infantry band and troops parade on a street in Mexico during World War I. People gather in large numbers to watch the Federal troops parade.
Scenes from a parade in Mexico City during the Mexican Revolution. Shows a group of Rurales, or Mexican mounted policemen (Guardia Rural) passing by. A large crowd gathers at the event.
Miss Helen Keller's development of the sense of touch to understand what is being said to her. Helen Adams Keller (first deaf blind person to graduate from college) feels the lips of Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company in Detroit, Michigan. Miss Keller's teacher Miss Anne Sullivan Macy in the background.
Emperor Francis Joseph I and entourage in Austria. A procession on a road. Austrian emperor Francis Joseph I and his entourage come down the steps of a palace. Several soldiers on horses. A band plays while marching on a road. The Emperor gets into a royal carriage.
Russian Imperial Cossack cavalrymen water their horses at two wells in winter (snow on ground) during World War 1. They use ropes on large wheels to raise buckets of water from the wells. Soldiers huddle around a fire , each using his own spoon, to eat from a common pot.