Hogs at a farm in Ohio. Farmer loads pigs into truck in order to transport them to the market. The truck gets stuck in a muddy road and the farmer is unable to free his truck. The hogs get tired and jump out of the truck adding to the farmer's complications. Demonstrates problems with low quality road system for farmers getting from farm to market. Federally financed road construction shows workers during the Great Depression as they reconstruct and level rugged roads under the Farm to Market Roads Program. Various machines used for the purpose of building new roads. A farm truck drives across a smooth road. A school bus approaches a new consolidated school building using the developed roads. View of an older rural school house in Ohio that is no longer used as a school due to school consolidation under the Works Progress Administration or WPA program. Two boys play on a see-saw in front of the school building. Children wearing shorts get off the school bus. View of main entrance of OYO Boy Scout Camp in West Portsmouth, Ohio. Boy Scouts view a knot tying demonstration as they sit outside the newly constructed Block House log cabin, built with federal funds under the Civil Works Administration, at the camp located in the Roosevelt Game Preserve. Views of the camp Headquarters building at Camp OYO. View of buildings of Old Fort Recovery, built by General 'Mad' Anthony Wayne, and restored by WPA.
Indiana Society of Chicago organize various events annually in Lake Forest Illinois Chicago. Participants enjoy rooster derby and balloon race. Cartoonist John T McCutcheon with his wife and son John plant the tree. Author Robert Sidney Smith, creator of Andy Gump, runs a foot race. Man and a woman with a rooster.
Busy street scene in downtown Buffalo, New York, with Niagara Square and the McKinley Monument in background. Pedestrians, cars, buses, and police directing traffic. Delegates from Pan American Congress of Journalists arriving in buses to observe grain flour mills in operation in Buffalo, New York. The buses cross over railroad tracks in an industrial factory area. Scene changes to farmers working in wheat fields, primarily in the American plains and west areas, and using threshing machines in wheat harvesting. Animated map depicts transportation of wheat across the United States for processing, with some being shipped on the Great Lakes to Buffalo for processing. Giant ships and tugboats in harbor area beside wheat processing mills in Buffalo. Views of wheat grain being emptied from ship holds with shovels on ropes being used to push wheat toward exit area. Grain elevator with wheat funneling downward. Slate notes (in Spanish) that the wheat is then converted into flour for the bread of the nation. View inside wheat processing plant in Buffalo as industrial machinery with belt drives converts the wheat to flour.
American Civil War veterans pay tribute to Abraham Lincoln in Springfield Illinois in United States. View of decorated tomb of Abraham Lincoln. Thousands of aged veterans in their Civil War Union Army uniforms gather in Oak Ridge Cemetery near the tomb of Abraham Lincoln. Governor Louis L Emmerson and other dignitaries attend the event. Governor Emmerson is seen in conversation with one of the aged veterans. Most of the veterans wear hats with the "G.A.R." symbol (Grand Army of the Republic, a Union military veterans and fraternal organization). One of the Union Civil War veterans shown is an African American soldier.
USS Shenandoah destroyed tragically in Ava Ohio. The giant airship ZR-1 crashed due to cyclonic storm. Ripped and torn into three pieces killing several crew members. Front part of the airship crashed at Ava while middle part and tail of the ship fell at Sharon 10 miles away from Ava in Ohio.
Delegates of the Pan American Highway Commission visit the United States. Group gathered around the famous Man O' War race horse (then retired) in Kentucky. Close views of Man O' War outside a stable. Visit to the tomb of Abraham Lincoln at Springfield. Delegates with a wreath are gathered at the base of Lincoln's tomb. The Commission views a 2 mile section of roadway called Bates Road which was built as an experiment, ultimately to be destroyed. Views of the dusty Bates Road and vehicles traveling slowly over its rutted roadway.
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