New York: A thrilling marathon race is run through the streets of New York. Villar Kyronen winning in a neck-and-neck finish at the City Hall. Washington: Mrs. B. Reeves Russel, a prominent society woman, is bringing up orphan puppy dogs, feeding them on babies' nursing bottles. Charleston. Mass., and Philadelphia: Military mass services are held in honor of the hero sailor dead at the two large eastern navy yards. Albany, N.Y: Governor Whitman vetoes the Christman-Wheeler censorship bill and prevents the taxing of the motion picture industry more than $2,000,000 a year in New York State. Paris: French crowds extend a cheering welcome to the Russian soldiers who enter the capital in preparation for their campaign against the German invaders in France. New York: The U.S.S. Oklahoma passes up the East River under Manhattan Bridge to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where she will be placed in drydock. Boston: Pretty girls wearing filmy draperies do the wood nymphs' dance, tunefully tripping over nature's green carpet in the forest at Middlesex Fells. New York: Ten thousand members of the New York National Guard parade in review before Major General John F. O'Ryan in the military tournament at Sheepshead Bay. Dublin, Ireland: The Hearst-Vitagraph News Pictorial presents the first pictures in this country of the scenes of havoc wrought during the recent uprising of Irish rebels.
—Moving Picture World synopsis