YESTERDAY'S NEWSREEL - ELECTION AT GEORGE JUNIOR REPUBLIC VATICAN TAPESTRY SCHOOL

it's 10th of January 1926 and at free ville New York youthful residents of the town are active members of smallest Republic in the world [Music] it's almost voting time in campaign for new president and on Election Day the voters are all between 16 and 21 years of age it's great training for the real thing 10th of January is also inauguration day for little governments newly elected chief executive and here's honored youth himself taking oath of office complete with police force and even a jail George jr. Republic is fully prepared to handle all lawbreakers but there's trial by judge and jury and witnesses to evil deeds are heard answering questions of youthful lawyer by a duly chosen panel every man is innocent till proven guilty and from looks of things here comes up unhappy verdict yes there's a new inmate in the gorge Junior Republic jail one more constructive side it's every youthful citizen for good of all as government law demands that everyone have a job this bakery is owned and operated by citizens Republic who do everything from knead dough to baking bread and delivering the finished product learning trade for later life youths work on small Republic's dairy farm this youth takes bull by the horns and this bossy looks as if she's enjoying a lot of great a contentment and so his girl top day and George jr. Republic is payday as citizens learn lessons in finance in 1926 these young girls and boys have found fun in freedom by 1936 they were wise citizens of the United States freest most wonderful land on earth yes 1930 and here in Berkeley California is mr. Stewart X yes that's his last name s and it's without question shortest name of anyone in world as proof he can write here's his signature in Chicago lift ma'am would perhaps longest name on record cutting door in kitchen abyss restaurant he's just a guy named Joe and his last name is the reason why here's his calling card you pronounce that name if you can it's not Smith and it's no wonder he's just called Joe [Music] it's February 1927 and here at Vatican City Rome Italy master's and pupils of the art of tapestry keep alive an art form that is centuries old deep in heart of vatican students of papal school of tapestry work at their hand looms in process of becoming a work of art tapestry looks like little more than crisscross of loose and unrelated threads but slowly the design begins to appear here in close-up is a small portion of the finished product its head of the christ-child woven by students at papal tapestry school and here's the entire completed tapestry called the birth of Christ it's modern miracle in ancient form of art [Music] here in 1931 as Lincoln Ellsworth on White House lawn great polar explorer is honored as other dignitaries watch Trebek uber gives medal to man who twice explored the Arctic and later claimed three hundred thousand square miles of till then undiscovered Antarctic Territory for the United States in 1920 here's Harry McLennan better known as Sir Harry Lauder returning to America after three year absence with Lady Lauder the famed Scottish singer and entertainer is again going to tour the United States with his repertoire of songs and ballets among them the immortal I love Vlasic anyone has ever studied the drama will know who this man is pictured on his arrival in New York City in 1922 he's the theorist and critic of the theater Constantin Stanislavski Constantin Stanislavski to whom the whole world of the theater once bowed [Music] it's 3rd of July 1926 and here's aftermath of violent earthquake in East Indies Islands this is all that remains of town of Padang in province of pond young Sumatra where 300 persons are dead under wreckage and ruin of their fallen and flattened homes survivors are stunned by one of worst earth tremors in quake land this is all that's left of Main Street of a once thriving native town this building is a total loss a pile of debris it all happened in 1926 and it was years before many of the survivors forgotten the horror of it it's February 1926 and here's yesterday's look had recently discovered secret underground passages near Petersburg Virginia built during war between the states passages were chopped out of Earth by bayonets some still there altogether the network of underground passages extends almost three miles and some experts of errors say that these might have been part of the famed underground railway used by Union soldiers it's 9th of January 1929 as 41000 San Francisco bonds are signed one of endurance signers is city's popular mayor role who puts his John Hancock on bonds thousands and thousands of times city treasurer John Keeler puts his name on dotted line twenty eight thousand four hundred fifty three times after using two quarts of ink mayor Ralph also gets arrest and rub down what's it for this the beautiful Spring Valley Water Project is the answer city will buy the dam and reservoir added to San Francisco water supply badly in need of expansion citizens bought signed bonds so city could buy water it's April Fool's Day 1928 as round-the-world Flyers Kerbal cost and LaBrie paused in capital city of the Land of the Rising Sun to receive honor from Emperor's people brave men from Western world get a good impression of the yeast in the warm ovation as they say thanks to the little man of Honshu few years later other Airmen came to Tokyo but didn't stay over Japanese soil long enough to make speeches myth America of 1926 at 1926 and Miss Washington is one of leading entrance in Atlantic City New Jersey's annual Miss America contest one piece cute pumps and short hair or the fashion for glamour looking over the contestants we get a shock for look who's here we'll give you a longer look yes you're right it's none other than Joan Blondell will she win let's see here's eighteen-year-old Norma Smallwood who's in Atlantic City at the promising miss Tulsa of 1926 five feet four inches tall 118 pounds of beauty Norma Smallwood is crowned Miss America of 1926 Hollywood bound miss blonde L didn't do half so well in pageant as in pictures [Music] it's September 1925 and near Manchester New Hampshire super brownies are simply super here's super brownie Leon Sullivan just a kid dropping 65 feet into water and no kidding he should be voted Youth most likely to make big splash in later life here's dive from 108 feet and here's dive called the waterfall let's have a look at it in slow motion at least we think they hit the water with a slightly softer touch that's diving boy or man that's diving it's 1929 and horse-racing comes back to Florida with reopening of Hialeah WP carry of Madison Square Garden is there with Jack Dempsey and here are horses on way to starting gate for inaugural handicap they won't be moving at this slower pace next time they pass the grandstand but this is one way spectators get a look at bags of their choice they're off with race beginning on backstretch clean play and standby take an early lead and hold it rounding the far turn and driving towards the finish line clean play and standby are neck-and-neck but clean play number four gets the winners purse because his whiskers got there first [Music]