When Paul Albert Axtell was born on 22 February 1905, in Irving Township, Brown, Kansas, United States, his father, Myron Walker Axtell, was 34 and his mother, Irene Walton True, was 30. He married Veneda I Wanamaker on 6 August 1928, in Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States. He lived in San Bernardino, California, United States in 1949 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1950. He died on 4 August 1975, in San Clemente, Orange, California, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Los Angeles, California, United States.
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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.
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
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from the Middle English personal name Asketill, from Old Norse Ásketill, composed of the elements áss ‘god’ + ketill ‘sacrificial cauldron, helmet’ (see also Haskell ). This name was in use both among Scandinavian settlers in eastern England (esp. Norfolk) and among the Normans.
nickname for a salt merchant or seller of salt, from Middle English hakke-salt ‘chop salt (into pieces)’. The development of the surname to Axtel is evidenced in 16th-century Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
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