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 present a gift after a month-long tour of the United States in 1924. Ceremony at the Pan American Union in Washington DC. Tablet is unveiled inscribed with the title 'Highway of Friendship', and presented as a gift to the Highway Education Board. The first line of the tablet reads, "Commemorative of the Official visit of the Pan American Highway Commission to the District of Columbia and the states of North Carolina, Kentucky, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey June 2 to July 3, 1924. The happiness and prosperity of the people of the United States have been greatly enhanced by your definite program of Highway education...." U.S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg accepts the tablet and speaks to those gathered.
The Stateville Prison in Crest Hill, Illinois. A police vehicle drives up to the Stateville Prison building. The police van is followed by a car. A number of cars parked in front of the building. Stateville written in the garden with the building in the background.
The Stateville Prison in Crest Hill, Illinois. A huge wall with watch towers around the prison. Men enter the vocational school building. A pond with the prison building in the background. Interiors of the prison with a roundhouse in the center and an open area surrounded by prison cells.
The Stateville Prison in Crest Hill, Illinois. Exterior of the building of the Stateville Prison. Prison inmates seated inside a large auditorium. An official inspects the prison. He speaks to a woman and they enter a building.
A movie actor playing the role of a man taking a difficult (for him) written examination. A clock on a wall reads 5:47, as he begins.Two hours later, he has taken off his suit jacket, loosened his tie, rolled up his sleeves, and is still struggling with the examination.