Explains how the newspaper printing process works and allows the distribution of millions of copies of the Detroit News newspaper in a single day. High speed newspaper printing press running as workers look on. Tons of ink is consumed. Interiors of the Detroit News press company is shown where the whole process is being carried out using huge paper rolls that are cut, folded and counted faster. Printing presses running. Then these papers are bundled and distributed. Newspaper delivery boys boxing and cheering while they await arrival of papers. Other boys cheering the boxers. A police officer looks on and serves as referee during the boxing match. Views of the color presses running, tended by an operator. Operator checking an edition of the "funnies" comic section created using the color presses. Newspaper men playing tennis on the roof of a tall building. Newspapers with pictorials are shown. Group of ladies receiving calls to place classified advertisements at a newspaper agency. Group of civilians reading newspapers while seated on a park bench that appears to be gender segregated, with "Ladies Only" and "Men Only" signs.
Many samples of handicrafts are exhibited by young girls and boys in Bird House building contest. Group of boys holding bird houses they made. Few boys pose with their bird houses. View of two girls holding bird houses pose as winners. 14 year old Donald Greeger wins with his Purple Martin house, which is admired by Walter Hastings, wildlife photographer of the state conservation department.
Professional football is assured for Detroit. View of the luncheon of team sponsors. Many guests seated around table . President of National Football League, Joseph H. Carr, presents franchise to Cy Huston., the manager of the Detroit team.
Rare Stamps are shown at Philatelic Exhibition, the annual show of the Michigan Stamp Club. Crowd looking at stamps. Two winners of World's Fair Beauty contest, Lorraine Nevins and Ruth Hardy, looking at stamps and talking with Club President S.E. Andrews and C.A. Temple. 13ounce Swedish Coin and rare Saint Louis Bear stamp is shown, listed at $250.
Shows how waste is converted into wages by social body like Goodwill Industries. View of Goodwill Industries store and then a local home where men carry furniture and pile it on to a truck. Couple enters the store and looks at the furniture. Men and women in shop repairing merchandise, sewing, ironing. Lot of people in the Goodwill Industries stores. Baby holding a doll. Women viewing a vase. Every waste given to Goodwill industries in turn provides a job to someone.
An old lady, Elizabeth Booth (or Elizabeth Boone), celebrates her 101st birthday. She carries a cane and opens the front door of a simple wooden house to come out. She fills her mouth with some chewing tobacco. "eatin' backy"
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