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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1931
Page
52
The Gordona Brothers and their woman partner wow crowds at Cirque dHiver with a triple somersault and a double pass high above the floor. Descriptions explain the precise timing and dangerous synchronization between flier and carrier in these trapeze feats.
The painting by Joseph Gray Kitchell, titled The Spirit of Motherhood, assembles 271 famous Madonnas into a supremely beautiful maternal face. Critics praise its depth and soft focus achieved by a two-plane Mezzotone method using translucent silk. The work, created over decades, has an estimated market value of 100,900,000 dollars and reflects three centuries of global art.
Forestry experts link lopsided growth rings to past hurricanes, calling the irregular rings compression wood. Studying Florida pulp wood from 1925 26 reveals windward and leeward growth patterns that reveal how trees fortify against strong winds. Government foresters say growth rings can record storm history and help predict future weather cycles.
The United States Government develops a vast fur farming operation on the Pribilof Islands off Alaska to breed and market fur seals and blue foxes. The Aleut population of about 880 works under white supervision, earning pay per skin and government provisions. Since 1912 seal herds have grown, yielding hundreds of thousands of skins over eighteen years.
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