When Laura Catherine Gale Spence was born on 12 December 1905, in Osborn, Clinton, Missouri, United States, her father, John Hamilton Spence, was 31 and her mother, Della Rae Shelley, was 29. She married Clarence Edwin Ripley on 22 March 1926, in Deer Lodge, Powell, Montana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Lake, Montana, United States in 1935 and Arlee Township, Lake, Montana, United States in 1940. She died on 20 January 1998, in Doyle, Lassen, California, United States, at the age of 92.
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The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
Historical Boundaries - 1910: Sanders, Montana, United States
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English and Scottish: nickname for a servant employed in the pantry of a great house or monastery, from Middle English spense, spence ‘pantry, larder, storeroom’ (Old French despense, from a Late Latin derivative of dispendere, past participle dispensus ‘to weigh out or dispense’). Compare Spencer .
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