When Alberta May Thiell was born on 3 March 1884, in Patoka, Marion, Illinois, United States, her father, Casper Lee Thiell, was 26 and her mother, Geneva Estella Knapp, was 23. She married Joseph Keller Acton on 19 August 1905, in Marion, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Capital Township, Sangamon, Illinois, United States in 1900 and Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States for about 10 years. She died in 1963, in Sterling, Whiteside, Illinois, United States, at the age of 79.
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The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.
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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.
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