When Iva May Bowles was born on 5 October 1895, in Indianapolis, Custer, Oklahoma, United States, her father, William Bennett Bowles, was 43 and her mother, Susan Brackett Newcomb, was 36. She married James Clarence Fitch on 25 September 1913, in Ellis, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. She lived in Justice Precinct 2, Gray, Texas, United States in 1940 and Gray, Texas, United States in 1950. She died on 9 May 1987, in Pampa, Gray, Texas, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Pampa, Gray, Texas, United States.
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A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Spindletop, located south of Beaumont, becomes the first major oil well to be discovered in Texas. Other fields were discovered in shortly after, which ultimately led to the highly impactful "oil boom".
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
English: variant of Bowell , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
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