Al Smith and Herbert Hoover campaigning for the Presidency

Shots of President Coolidge on his farm in "Yankeeland";

The Rotolactator! Amazing automated cow-milking machine.

Hallo Mars? - Marconi with new antenna on his yacht

Laying a cable between the US and Cuba "Laying a Talk Highway."

Fold-up Cars: Two women push an odd, folded-up vehicle onto street, put it together, drive away.

1919 Boston police strike: VO explains Governor Calvin Coolidge fired the strikers; Massachusetts State House, scene of strike; Coolidge inspecting police recruits; Coolidge taking oath after election.

This Universal newsreel focuses on a Congressional racket probe involving "Spike" O'Donnell. Chicago, Ill.: "Spike" O'Donnell, a former South Side beer baron who bears the title of "the most shot-at gangster in the country," tells members of a Federal committee investigating crime of his reaction to the latest Federal drive on kidnappers and other lawbreakers.

This Universal newsreel focuses on two topics, as follows. Reel 1, North Beach Airport, N.Y.: Taking off from the waters of Bowery Bay, the Flying Colonel and his wife are seen in unusual pictures on the start of their flight to Greenland to survey a route across the North Atlantic for Pan American Airways. Reel 2, Freeport, Ill.: A remarkable screen interview with Mrs. Caroline Mattern as she receives the report that her son Jimmie is safe and well...

In the early twentieth century, thousands of homesteaders and "suitcase farmers" converge on the southern Plains, where wet years, rising wheat prices and World War I produce a classic boom. Millions of acres of virgin sod are plowed up. Caroline Henderson stakes her claim in a strip of Oklahoma called No Man's Land, and for a while prosperity seems certain for her and the families of two dozen survivors who provide eyewitness testimony. Then, in...