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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1927
Page
2
An advertisement touts Moone's Emerald Oil as a fast remedy for tired aching swollen feet and inflammation. It claims strong antiseptic deodorant properties, quick results, and easy, non greasy use. The copy urges patients to ask their druggist for a 2 ounce bottle and asserts wide national availability.
A vintage pitch extols clear skin as essential to popularity, advocating S58 and RSS tonics as remedies. Personal testimonials praise improvements in pimples and blemishes, claiming natural restoration of complexion and vitality through advertised products.
An advertisement touts Plant Juice as a natural remedy for stomach and digestive issues. It asserts the herbal extract cleanses waste from the liver and bowels, relieves gas heartburn and indigestion, and restores vigor, urging readers to buy a bottle today.
Eighteen pilots of the First Pursuit Group completed a record daylight flight from Selfridge Field to Kelly Field near Mount Mount, covering about 1320 miles in 11 hours and 5 minutes. Brig. Gen. Fechet praised the feat as a sign of pilot skill and air corps development. Major Lanphier led the lead leg from Selfridge to Scott Field and Muskogee, with refueling en route, culminating at Kelly Field.
May 2. A newly surfaced Lincoln manuscript, likely the longest and best preserved, emerged from Titvis town. It is one of many papers from Col. Robert B. Latham related to Lincoln and includes the famous 1850s sectionalism speech. Will Latham displayed two new papers, valued at thousands of dollars, which his father carried in his coat pocket, unaware of their significance.
Italian aviator De Pinedo lifted from the river surface near Philadelphia on May 12 at 7:25 am and began a cross country flight toward New York. He completed the journey in one hour and twenty seven minutes despite adverse weather, aboard the United States Air Transport Service craft.
Mexico shows a 30 percent rise in beer production in 1926 per official federal statistics. The report notes breweries expanded output to about 7,000,000 quarts, equating to roughly five quarts per person across the country. Local readers are urged to consider consumption patterns and regional differences.
The business meal conference in Mexico City adjourned early after a lengthy session. A permanent commission was appended to study commercial problems and propose solutions. A government moratorium on commercial libations was rejected.
Chicago May 12. Herman Schevill 20 of Heston says he fell in love with a violin after hearing Afram Zimbalist play in Los Angeles. He stole the instrument, a Guadogetpi violin from 1744 valued at $10,000.
A federal court jury failed to reach a verdict on the Chaplin-related motion in a case linking a disinfectant salesman and author. The jurors were discharged early after an inability to agree on whether to admit or consider certain motions connected to a film and its creator.
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