The 08-April-1916 Motography featured "News of the Week as Shown in Films," with items from current newsreels.
"Chubby little future Jess Wiilards being weighed at Chicago's Baby Week. A scene from the Universal Weekly." National Better Baby Week took place in March, 1916. Jess Willard was the very large heavyweight champion.
"One of the many varieties of gas masks used in the European war. Pathe News Weekly." Gas warfare took place starting early in the war. I'm not sure this is a soldier in a gas mask. It may be a Red Cross worker spraying disinfectant.
"Seminole Indians give the Sun Dance before a big society affair at West Palm Beach, Florida. Selig-Tribune. " The Seminole Sun Dance was a festival held in West Palm Beach from 1916 to 1923 to try to get people to come to Florida.
"The cause of the Mexican war of 1916. Funeral of the Columbus raid victimes. Hearst-Vitagraph News." On 09-March-1916, Pancho Villa attached the town of Columbus, New Mexico:
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"All aboard the 'Aero sled' and we're off at forty miles an hour. From the Mutual Weekly." Not long after World War One, an older uncle of mine and some of his friends put an airplane engine and propeller on an ice boat. He said it was a wonder they didn't get killed.
"These mermaids of Long Beach, California, may look 'tired' but they're not. The tires hold 'em up. Pathé." Bad pun.
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