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ERLICH

1906 Tallest Man In Town

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El Paso Texas 1937
-Jacob Reuben Erlich

■ José Clemente Orozco 1883-1949

José Clemente Orozco -fue un
muralista y litógrafo. Hizo su
primera exposición individual
en la librería Biblos de Ciudad
de México en 1916. Al año
siguiente viajó por los Estados
Unidos y vivió en San Francisco y en Nueva York pintando
carteles; pintó también murales
para el Colegio Pomona de California, para el Dartmouth College y la New School for Social
Research de Nueva York; en la
decoración de esta última, realizó un verdadero fresco, pues
pintó sobre yeso húmedo; fue
la primera de este tipo que se
hizo en Nueva York. En 1926
por encargo de la Secretaria de
Educación, pinto el mural Reconstrucción en la Cd. Orizaba.

lived an exceptional life;
all the more so given
his status as one of the
world’s tallest men,
towering above his contemporaries at an astonishing 8 foot 6. As a
teenager, Jake was discovered during a visit to
California, where he became a denizen of 1920s
Hollywood and starred
Then, he spent 14 years
touring with Ringling
Bros. and Barnum &
Bailey Circus as a sideshow performer. Later
still, he would earn renown as a painter, poet,
photographer and sculptor whose works can be
found in the permanent
collection of the Museum of Natural History
in New York. As if this
were not enough, he was
also an accomplished
dancer, musician, vaudeville entertainer, expert
marksman, and the key -

witness for a landmark libel
case that set new professional standards for
medical research.
The thing that
Jake hated
most about
being a
circus
giant
was
having
people
ask,
How’s
the
big
weather up
there?
I was
asked that
question at
least 10,000
times,” recalled
Erlich.
At 44 and standing ‘round 8
feet 6 inches, he is happy in
his new career as the world’s
tallest traveling salesman.
Along the way, we learned a
great deal about courage,

character, and one man’s
unique perspective on a
broad sweep of
history that
encompassed
the Great
Depression,
the immigrant
experience in
turnof-thecentury
Texas,
life
in the
circus,
the modern art
movement
and the
domestic
anti-Semitism
that accompanied
the run-up to World
War II.

The short biography and
the 1937 El Paso Texas
exclusive ‘Tall’ interview

age 19, he has reached
8 foot 6 and wears size
26-1/2 shoes. Jacob
took the screen name
Jack Earle when he
started working in the
there he appeared in
many movies.
His movie career came
to an end when during
scaffolding. He broke
his nose and was hospitalized. While in the
hospital, his eyesight
became blurry and
within days he lost his
sight completely for a
while.
While touring old El
Paso, Texas, Ringling
Bros. offered “Jack”
a one-year contract.
“I didn’t want to be a
sideshow freak,” Jake
said. “But I did want to
earn a living. I traveled
with the circus for 14
years. And by then all
its glamor and color had
ended for me.”

CLINT TEXAS

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Clint Its Story Begins 1883
Clint, also known as Collins-

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■ José Guadalupe Posada 1852-1913

José Guadalupe Posada -fue
un grabador, ilustrador y caricaturista mexicano. Célebre por
sus dibujos de escenas costumbristas, folclóricas, de crítica
socio-política y por sus ilustraciones de calaveras, entre ellas
La Catrina. En León, Posada
abrió su propio taller y trabajó
como maestro de litografía en
la Escuela de Instrucción Secundaria, asimismo, realizó
litografías y grabados en madera que ilustraban cajetillas de
cerillos, documentos y libros.
En 1873 regresó a Aguascalientes en donde contrajo matrimonio con María de Jesús Vela en
1875. Fue hasta su muerte que
comenzó la valoración de su estética como arte popular.

Railroad at the intersection of
State Highway 20 and Farm Road
1110, sixteen miles southeast of
downtown El Paso in southern
El Paso County. The story of the
town, which was named for early
settler Mary Clinton Collins, began when the San Elizario Corporation sold the townsite to J. A.
Cole, who sold it to Thomas M.
Collins in 1883. For several years
after the establishment of the
Elizario station on the Galveston,
Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway.
In 1890 the estimated population
of Clint was 100, and the town
had a general store, a fruit grower, and a hotel. Clint soon developed into an agricultural center.
By 1896 the estimated population
had increased to 150, including -

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nine fruit growers and four alfalfa
growers. The townsite was set up
in 1909. By 1914 the estimated
population of 400 supported three
churches, two banks, a newspaper, and a tomato cannery. An
estimated 600 residents lived at
Clint in the late 1920s, but the
number declined to 250 by the
mid-1930s.
By the late 1940s it had grown
again to 550, then dropped to
417 in the early 1970s. In the late
1970s the estimated population
was 1,120.
It was 1,314 in the early 1980s
and 1,883 in the late 1980s. In
1990 it was 1,035, and in 2000 it
was 980.

Pop Culture Reference
Clint, Texas, was also mentioned
in Johnny Cash’s 1966 song
“Red River Valley” from the album Everybody Loves a Nut, in
which Cash repeatedly states that
$2.98 in Clint Texas.

“Though the early college experience
challenges students academically, it also
has an impact on their entire life.”

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Clint Independent School District
Students who are targeted for the early college programs are typically economically disadvantaged
language learners and other students who are underrepresented in colleges. The goal of the school
is to make college accessible for all. The program
offers students a chance to save two years of college costs and earn credits that are transferable to
a four-year college as they work towards a bachelor’s degree. Though the early college experience
challenges students academically, it also has an impact on their entire life. Embrace education now.

CHIHUAHUA MEXICO Y LA SIERRA MADRE OCCIDENTAL

CHIHUAHUA
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Chihuahua Mexico -The most accepted theory explains that the name was derived from the Nahuatl language meaning The place where the water of the
rivers meet. The Sierra Madre Occidental mountain range, an extension of the
Rocky Mountains, dominates the state’s
terrain and is home to the state’s greatest
attraction, Las Barrancas del Cobre, or
Copper Canyon, a canyon system larger
and deeper than the Grand Canyon. It
has more forests than any other state in
Mexico, with the exception of Durango.
Due to its variant climate the state has
state is mostly characterized by rugged mountainous terrain and wide river
valleys. The Sierra Madre Occidental
mountain range, an extension of the

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Rocky Mountains, dominates the state’s
terrain and is home to the state’s greatest attraction, Las Barrancas del Cobre,
or Copper Canyon, a canyon system
larger and deeper than the Grand Canyon. On the slope of the Sierra Madre
Occidental mountains (around the regions of Casas Grandes, Cuauhtémoc
and Parral), there are vast prairies of
short yellow grass, the source of the
bulk of the state’s agricultural production. Most of the inhabitants live along
the Rio Grande Valley and the Conchos
River Valley. The etymology of the
name Chihuahua has long been disputed by historians and linguists. The
accepted theory explains that the name
was derived from the Nahuatl language
meaning “The place where the water of

the rivers meet”. Chihuahua has a diverThe three most important economic
centers in the state are: Ciudad Juárez,
an international manufacturing center;
Chihuahua, the state capital; and Delicias, the state’s main agriculture hub
Today Chihuahua serves as an important commercial route prospering from
billions of dollars from international
trade as a result of NAFTA. On th e other
hand the state suffers the fallout of illicit trade and activities especially at the
border. The earliest evidence of human
inhabitants was discovered in the area
of Samalayuca and Rancho Colorado.
Clovis points have been found in northeastern Chihuahua that have been dated
between 12000 BC to 7000 BC.