Tobacco Prose: The Cigar-Factory Readers of Ybor City
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We read to know we are not alone. –C.S. Lewis On a December evening in 1903, the streets of Ybor City, Florida rang with gunfire. Two men had dueled and, in so doing, sustained grave injuries. One of the duelists, Mexican national Enrique Velázquez, would find himself the worse for the exchange, his bullet wounds carrying him off five days later. His antagonist, Spaniard Jesús Fernández, managed to survive his injuries.
Tobacco Prose: The Cigar-Factory Readers of Ybor City
Tobacco Prose: The Cigar-Factory Readers of…
Tobacco Prose: The Cigar-Factory Readers of Ybor City
We read to know we are not alone. –C.S. Lewis On a December evening in 1903, the streets of Ybor City, Florida rang with gunfire. Two men had dueled and, in so doing, sustained grave injuries. One of the duelists, Mexican national Enrique Velázquez, would find himself the worse for the exchange, his bullet wounds carrying him off five days later. His antagonist, Spaniard Jesús Fernández, managed to survive his injuries.