When Eula Short was born on 1 February 1897, in Crawford, Missouri, United States, her father, William Sherman Short, was 29 and her mother, Sarah Emaline Martin, was 27. She died on 23 January 1926, in Missouri, United States, at the age of 28, and was buried in Steelville, Crawford, Missouri, United States.
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After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
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.
English: nickname for a short person, from Middle English short ‘short’ (Old English sceort).
English: topographic name for someone who lived at a detached or cut-off piece of land (Middle English shorte, shirte, from Old English scierte, scerte, scyrte) or else a habitational name from a place so named, such as Shoart in Harbeldown (Kent) and Shuart in Saint Nicholas at Wade (Kent). Compare Shorter .
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac an Gheairr, Mac an Ghirr ‘son of the short man’ (see McGirr ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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