Word: saltillo
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...zinc engravings were printed on cheap colored paper sheets, sold throughout the Mexican countryside. Posada-illustrated broadsides, some with printed ballads (corridos), were often vended by street singers, mainly to peons who could not read. They described news events such as: "Sensational happening! Frightful murder and true example in Saltillo, the first day of the past month (Gentlemen, the criminal has already been shot...
...Torres was brought from the military prison where he was confined, and was told by Lieut. Col. Fredico Zenteno that he was condemned to suffer death, and would be executed at once. On taking his pedigree, Torres said, with serenity and calmness, that he was a native of Saltillo, 37 year of age, unmarried and a farmer by occupation...