An anti-gambling campaign is launched by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in New York. Views of smashed slot machines. People smash slot machines and carry them away. Mayor La Guardia and then others on a boat throw the smashed machines into the Long Island Sound. Part of a "25 years ago today" UN newsreel story issued September 24, 1959.
A tower topples in New Jersey. Views of the tower which is one of the country's highest radio towers. A man cuts down the tower. The tower topples down on the ground. Damaged tower and debris.
Grace Kelly and Prince Rainer of Monaco at a gala benefit in New York. They arrive at the gala benefit hall. They draw a lottery ticket from a box and announce the winner. People at a dining table applaud. Views of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainer.
A commuter train gets derailed on a New York Central elevated train track. Views of the derailed train and wrecked railroads. Vehicles and people near a bridge for the central tracks. Passengers of the derailed train await help. Engineers talk standing next to the derailed train. The passengers are transferred to another train. The train starts and moves.
The annual visit to the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital by its Board of Directors at Saranac Lake, New York. The building of the hospital. The Board of Directors visit the hospital. They attend an annual meeting. In the meeting a man shows X-rays and explains about the treatment given. The Board of Directors inspects the sanitarium and meets the patients. They take lunch and climb down the stairs. A statue of Will Rogers in the foreground.
Demonstration of an educated lawn mower in New Jersey. A woman starts the automatic lawn mower. This gadget with trick arms keeps going around the grass plot and cuts grass at even length automatically. The woman and a man sit on a porch and have cold drinks.
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