YESTERDAY'S NEWSREEL - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE WOMEN IN WWI & WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE STRADIVARIUS

television highlights are the news of yesteryear it's 1917 and the world is busy with a war in France so here in America women are busy in the nations wartime factories and munitions plants women whose place the now fighting men had said was in the home now these same women place America's war plans on a winning basis doing a man's job as well as father or brother ever did [Music] there's a girl even at the controls of this gigantic cannon crane yes while the boys are fighting on the home front the little woman is doing a big job she's now seen in all kinds of jobs once the exclusive property of the male sole masters of the working world this girl stalking trade is going up filling in for streetcar employees who have gone to war here are women wearing the uniform and doing the work of conductors and here's a telegraph messenger boy a girl a boulder pioneer still is mrs. Nettie Johnson not only owner but captain in command of her own river barge a rare thing indeed even in this day of women's equality with man in every walk of life and type of business in years of First World War women sat at the desks of office workers now being employed by Uncle Sam men were the exception in an office now but along with work comes play and here near los angeles is camp for women workers where wage earners get a well-earned holiday for just $11 a week if by any chance you think these are present-day vacationers just look at those bathing suits a moment of happy playtime in an unhappy wartime but then it's 1918 and the Allies win the war 1919 follows with women fighting still but for the right to vote and they win this war too it's now 1920 and the tireless work of pickets in Washington gets the suffrage bill through Congress first state to ratify the famed 19th amendment is Illinois and here's governor Loudoun making it official with his signature after 35 others had signed the amendment was law and given the right to vote women set out to get into public office to here's mrs.annie our neo jailed for her fight for women's rights to a place in the world beyond the confines of her home and another important member of National Woman's Party is princess Redbird charming representative of her people and in the years ahead women prosper and the nation with them [Music] it's 1930 at in first Grimm year of depression big view Board of Trade building is opened in Chicago's loop its new Tower and world capital of grain and cattle and from now on this busy street will be even busier dedication ceremonies feature the usual parades speeches and loud lusty cheering of the crowd happy to see faith in a world so recently rocked by economic crash first day of business at the board is fast and blustering but ahead lie all the thirties shaky years for business and in the 1940s a new world war the atom bomb and then peace [Music] weathers fire there's smoke and smoke can kill its 19:27 and in Minneapolis firefighters test their chief ringers revised edition of his 1915 invention the smoke power smoke in basements of burning buildings has long hampered work of firefighters cause death of sound but it won't happen now not with this ingenious device to clear the air and the way [Music] odd horse he used in France here's John archila zoom fame commander of the United States Marines here in his Washington office in middle 1920s he directs peacetime operations of boys in blue and looks at some of numerous trophies his hard fighting corps has won John Lejeune Major General of Marines the little guy with a big family is Little Caesar Edward G Robinson himself as he looked in the early 1930s he'll show them alright you get have kids how do you get it all look it's it's right there won't show many not behind camera but in front of one for a change is George Eastman big businessman and philanthropist famed as inventor of Kodak and Kodak film here posing in the 1920s Eastman gave more than seventy five million dollars to various philanthropic organizations and he began at all as an amateur photographer it's 1933 and high winds have brought high water to this small but important Texas city hit by the winds of hurricane proportions full area is inundated by blown waters of nearby Gulf of Mexico waterfront homes are smashed beyond repair sure and shallows are a sea of debris soon as high wind has died residents not hurt in storm hurry to salvage whatever had not been rendered a total loss by whipping winds and lashing waters looks like whole town is topsy-turvy but it wasn't long before Corpus Christi was back to normal again [Music] [Applause] here in middle 1930s his collection of violins not one of which is less than 200 years old and here John dubs plays one of them like all the others this was work of Antonio Stradivari dead since 1737 but still considered greatest violin maker who ever lived this tiny instrument is worth $500 entire collection has value of $25,000 because of age and the Stradivari construction and big and little of fiddle works is shown in this comparison of bass and violin [Music] it's 5th of February 1933 and boarding the Astor yard Franklin Delano Roosevelt is not President of the United States as he stands at railing with a stir and small grandchildren sisty and buzzy he's mayor they president-elect Roosevelt who hopes soon to give depression America a new deal it's his last vacation before entering the White House for one month later he takes all of office and his President Franklin Roosevelt for the rest of his life [Music] torpedo squadron 1922 yes it's just 1922 September 27th to be exact but naval experts are already testing the possibility of torpedo warfare by air it's something yet untested and even those few who think that it might work see little practical use for such a refinement of the science and art of destruction in a world pledged to peace after a war so bitterly fought and won but the experiment goes ahead and though it doesn't look like much with 1922 torpedoes and planes of early vintage in the Pacific at a place called Midway battle was victorious with part thanks to Navy planes of the u.s. torpedo squadron [Music] Windy City wonders 1928 its 30th of December 1928 and Chicago's Board of Education shows Windy City women how to be the most beautiful things in the world Chicago gave its waterfront a successful face lifting now the same is being done for its feminine population [Music] most of the equipment you see looks pretty modern doesn't it well here in 1928 it was new and novel the slide for washing suds away from a lady shampoo and even this electric hairdryer old stuff today but fabulous and fancy in 28 good skates still better skater its 20th of November 1925 and on pond in New York City's Central Park his claw Sternberg still fresh from Olympic wins in games of 24 and anxious to show America the form that makes him best speed skater and world in later demonstrations and contests flyer from Finland speeds to New Worlds records in mile and three quarter mile events racks up four new marks altogether he lost three mile grind to skater Joe Moore of New York but bernburg the fast skating pin didn't claim he could win them all [Music] Bowlings better half here in 1930 is mrs. RJ McCutcheon of Pueblo Colorado best woman bowler of her time in fact she even beats most men strikes are a dime a dozen to bowler McCutcheon and when there's a one pin standing down her alley she gets that to the man are good but woman's champion McCutcheon strikes her opponents out [Music]