July 4 in San Antonio history…
1895
The San Antonio and Lone Star breweries presented kegs of beer to patients at the City Hospital.
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.”
1946
San Antonio closed shop to celebrate the first peacetime July 4 in five years.
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