Kinograms Newsreel (1924)

Washinqton DC – President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge stage a White House reception / Chief Justice Taft and Andrew S. Mellon in attendance.
Placerville, California: Inhabitants take a Sunday to start a new Park.
Famous runner Paavo Nurmi from Finland arrives in the United States to train for race.
Women candidates for Congress meet: Mrs. Kerr from Colorado, Mrs. Culbertson and Jessie Collet from Philadelphia.
Grand Duchess Cyril – wife of claimant to the Russian throne visits Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
St. Louis 45th annual carnival / thousands view $10,000 floats.
Nation pays tribute to Samuel Gompers, who died recently in Texas / he visits with San Francisco’s Charles Schwab.
Mrs. Coolidge receives honorary Doctor of Laws from Boston University.
New York – Workers risk lives to paint WJZ’s radio tower at Aeolian Hall, across 42nd Street from the New York Public Library, in Manhattan.
San Francisco: Army blasts away last signs of training cantonment foundation (at Crissy Field).
Philadelphia hires tale-teller for children.
“Frisco” ( San Francisco, California ) cops show how to make an arrest!

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