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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1927
Page
5
B J Shumaker and George Chandier of Geinesville recaptured in Port Worth after escaping from the water prison farm at Sugarland on August 11.
A vivid reminiscence recalls the Diamond King, a traveling showman doctor in San Antonio. He rode a gaudy wagon, tossed silver to the crowd, sold patent medicines with living testimonials, and entertained before dying of smallpox contracted from a patient. Born J. J. Lighthall, he was 30, married with two children, and posthumously remembered with a monument at Cite Cemetery No. 4.
DENISON, Aug. 17. Clarence Chamberlin, first man to fly nonstop from New York to Germany, returns to his birthplace Denison aboard the same private car he rode with Queen Marie of Romania during her American tour. He arrives tomorrow amid town celebration and pride.
Paris Aug 17 France and Germany signed a commercial treaty after three years of interrupted talks. The pact, described as an effective arrangement with thousands of clauses, sets favored nation tariffs and takes effect September 6.
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