When Homer Pierre Boissonneau was born on 5 February 1889, in Waterford, Saratoga, New York, United States, his father, Cleophas Boissonneault, was 34 and his mother, Adeline Cardin, was 26. He lived in Saratoga, New York, United States in 1920. He died on 2 October 1927, in Waterford, Saratoga, New York, United States, at the age of 38.
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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.
An organization formed in favor of women's suffrages. By combining the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association, the NAWSA eventually increased in membership up to two million people. It is still one of the largest voluntary organizations in the nation today and held a major role in passing the Nineteenth Amendment.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
form of the name of the Greek epic poet Homēros, now regularly used as a given name in the United States ( compare Virgil ), where it has been immortalized by the cartoon character Homer Simpson in the television series The Simpsons. Many theories have been put forward to explain the origin of the name of the poet, but none is conclusive. It is identical in form with the Greek vocabulary word homēros ‘hostage’.
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