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...last year old Revolutionary General Miguel Flores Villar-who in his day saw priests hunted down and convents burned-spotted a fully garbed Sister of Charity bustling through Mexico City and ordered the police to arrest her. They did because they had to, but at the police station Sister Guadalupe Colon was immediately released. The incident was typical of the state's changing attitude toward religion...
...None Other ..." Soon afterward, a poor worker, José Trigo Villar, and his wife Concepción came to the home to adopt a child. They chose blue-eyed, blonde-curled Maria. "You are taking away a real marquesita" said one of the nurses at the home. José Trigo remembered the remark often during the next quarter-century when, hounded by poverty and civil war, he tramped up & down Spain in search of a living...
...three old people who lived in the old mansion at Republica del Salvador, No. 66, never admitted visitors, had no servants. Brother Angel Villar Lledias, stooped and 70, did the marketing. Sister Maria, somber and 58, cooked. Brother Miguel, 66, was blind. Sometimes the three trailed over to shabby El Principal for lunch, left...
Similar adjustments were made in the price of other brands (Corona Perfectos, Bock Panetelas, Villar y Villar, Henry Clay, La Meridiana, La Vencedora, La Carolina) turned out by companies affiliated with American Tobacco Co. Cause of this was not competition of cheaper brands, including American Tobacco's 5? Cremo ("Spit is a horrid word!"), but economies made possible by moving the factories from Havana to Trenton, N. J. Although the Spanish-style factory at Trenton will not be completed for a month, 500 employes have been working in a temporary one, learning the business...
...Havana, then shipped to Trenton under bond. Factories being moved include Havana Cigar & Tobacco Factories, Ltd., H. de Cabanas y Carbajal and others, all controlled by American Cigar's subsidiary Cuban Tobacco Co. Their brands, on which price reductions are likely, embrace: Corona, Bock, Henry Clay, Carolina, Villar, Manuel Garcia Alonso, La Meridiana...