The Archive · 1927

San Antonio

Colonel Lindbergh arrived to-day. in Mexico City on the conclusion of his 2,000 mile non-stop flight from Washington in the Spirit of St. Louis, the plane in which he crossed the Atlantic.

President Callen declared the day public holiday and detachments of cavalry were posted along the highway before midnight to control the crowds thronging the route from the capital to Valbuena aerodrome. here the President and the whole Cabinet assembled, with the foreign Ambassadors, to greet the airman Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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