When Ruby M Gross was born on 12 August 1888, in Steele, Minnesota, United States, her father, Gilbert Gross Jr., was 33 and her mother, Emma E. Fisher, was 29. She married Simon Carl Pike on 5 April 1911, in Steele Center, Steele, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Medford, Steele, Minnesota, United States for about 48 years. She died on 26 January 1982, in Owatonna, Steele, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Owatonna, Steele, Minnesota, United States.
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This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
The Flag of Minnesota was adopted on August 2 and consists of scenes from the seal of Minnesota. The flag has been modified over the years to be easier to manufacture.
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a big man, from Middle High German grōz ‘large, corpulent’, German gross. This surname is also established in some other parts of Europe, most notably in France (Alsace and Lorraine). In Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Croatia it is also found (in Slovenia almost exclusively) in the Slavicized form Gros (see also 3 below). The Jewish name has been Hebraicized as Gadol .
English: descriptive nickname for a big man, from Middle English gros, grosse, groce ’large; heavy’, also meaning ‘simple, plain’, from Old French gros ‘big, fat’ (from Latin grossus ‘thick’), a word of ancient Germanic origin, thus etymologically the same word as in 1 above.
Germanized or Americanized form of Slovenian, Polish, Croatian or other Slavic Gros , itself of German origin (see 1 above).
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