Senator William Edgar Borah, a supporter of alcohol prohibition, addresses legislators in the United States. In Idaho: United States Senator William Edgar Borah holds files and documents. He tells fellow legislators that the prohibition "enforcement system is demoralized". Men and women having drinks in a bar or club illegally and also rolling dice in a dice game. In Everglades, Florida: Prohibition sleuths destroy 100 barrels of moonshine which they captured. Agents seen smashing barrels of illegal liquor and dumping the alcohol on the ground.
Hugo Eckener receives a gold medal by the National Geographic Society in Washington DC. A National Geographic Society officer awards a gold medal to Hugo Eckener, the head of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin, for the famous "round the world flight". The officer greets Eckener. The gold medal.
At a logging site in Aberdeen Washington, an engine atop wide train-like wheels moves on wooden tracks, known as a Pole Road (as opposed to a railroad). Carrying a full load of felled trees, the engine moves on the poleroad tracks made from logs of wood. Trees on either side of the track.
A Mid-West Dog show in Chicago, Illinois. Owners hold leashes of Saint-Bernard and other large dogs. A dog sticking out its tongue. Terriers such as Bull Terriers and Wire Fox Terriers join as contestants. Women with bulldogs. A little girl sits beside a bulldog. Wire Fox Terriers and Chow Chow on leash. A black poodle at the dog show looks up and sticks its tongue.
During Prohibition, police raid a garage at Halsted Street in Chicago, Illinois. The police raid the garage under the instruction of Deputy Prohibition Adminstrator A. E. Aman. They discover 537 barrels of banned beer. Officials destroy the barrels with mallets. Liquor flows from the barrels and into the streets.
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt visits a hospital to cheer crippled children in Washington DC. The First Lady of the United States Anna Eleanor Roosevelt cheers crippled children at the hospital during an informal bedside visit. A nurse examines a crippled child on the bed. Mrs. Roosevelt stands beside a nurse who is working with a young boy in a large water tub (possibly polio victim).
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