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Press release from the San Antonio Public Library:
July 4, 2021
1937
Convinced her husband was cheating on her, an Austin woman leaps to her death from the eighth floor of the Bluebonnet Hotel. Her suicide note ends with, "So long, Casanova."
1978
The Express and the News newspapers are combined for the day.
2007
The structure at 13445 Blanco Road that was once known as one of the biggest casinos east of Reno and was most recently known as Larry Herman's Roaring 20s is destroyed by fire. In its heyday, between 1926 and the early 1960's, it operated as the Shadowland Night Club.
This press release was produced by the San Antonio Public Library. The views expressed here are the author's own.
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