Mrs Irene Warren decorates her 'Spite' house with garish colors,weird and colorful garments,cartoons,insults,crude signs, and slogans to protest against the Zone Law in Glen Ridge New Jersey. City fathers passed this law to restrict establishment of business centers in home restricted areas. Mrs Irene Warren standing in her house.
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.
European swimmers gather for the 26th annual 'Across Rome' water race contest in Rome, Italy. Swimmers jump and swim across the Tiber River. Tugboats and few small boats escort the swimmers. Swimmers swim past the Castel Sant’angelo (Lungotevere Castello, 50, 00193 Roma RM, Italy). Swimmers under the Ponte Sant'Angelo. Spectators on the riversides follow and cheer for the swimmers. Italian swimmer Renato Bacicalupo is the winner of the race.
Views of soft coal mine at Cadiz,Ohio United States. Text 'safety first' carved on the stones of a tunnel. Men coming out of the tunnel. People burn things during a workers strike against the mine operators over pay grievances. Management sends non union laborers on job. Armed U.S. National Guard soldiers in position to control the mob. Guard stands outside a wooden house. Men give first aid to an injured man. A guard stands near the rail track while a coal loaded trolley train passes through the tunnel.
Andrew W Mellon former U.S. Secretary of Treasury leaves a ship and arrives at Waterloo railway station in London England. Steam locomotive pulling passenger cars pulls into the railroad station. People welcome Secretary Mellon in the station. Mellon is escorted by the guards. He proceeds in a car to the American Embassy where he greets British dignitaries including Sir Patrick Duff. Mellon takes charge as U.S. new ambassador to the nation.
Boy Scouts visit the Bronx Zoo in New York United States. Boys take impressions of possums, woodchuck, squirrel, song bird, turtle and toad on a hand written plea against the automobile drivers. Boy Scouts meet with Mayor James J Walker and give the scroll of plea. They ask the Mayor to urge greater care to motorists for the safety of the animals