Newsreel entitled "Babe Ruth Breaks All Home Run Records." Title screen notes Ruth has hit 26 home runs to this point in 1919 season, a major league baseball record at the time. Shots of Ruth warming up pitching arm before game at Boston's Fenway Park, with park's famed "Green Monster" wall in background. Shots of Ruth pitching. Shots of Ruth swatting a long hit, running to first base and rounding the base toward second. Shots of crowd waving hats and cheering. Shot of Ruth rounding third, heading for home.
Older men and women dance at a garden in Oakland, California. The dancers from the "class of '61" (1861 - Civil War era) square dance in pairs. They dance to the tune of "Johnny in the low ground" and "Turkey in the Straw".
During World War I era, Italian journalists pose for a group photo on steps of a building in Washington DC. During their visit they were introduced to President Woodrow Wilson by Mr. George Creel, Chairman of the Committee on Public Information.
Amelita Galli Curci and famous Italian singers auction apples to aid war stricken countrymen in Chicago, Illinois during World War I. A woman and a man auction apples. People bid for the apples.
Society women volunteer for War Relief Work during World War 1, in Washington DC. Women get involved in the war effort at home, as they work on clothes by sewing. A woman stitches. A woman cuts with scissors. Women display clothes. Clothes displayed by children.
Women pose in living posters to aid Red Cross campaign in Washington DC during World War I. A board reads "The spirit of Red Cross". A woman poses. A child with the Christmas Red Cross. A woman wears the Red Cross nurse dress. Two women pose with a big Red Cross sign. A board reads "Where Columbia Leads".
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