When Ralph Reed Lounsbury was born on 3 November 1871, in Connecticut, United States, his father, James Cooke Lounsbury, was 43 and his mother, Isabella Spalding, was 33. He married Katchen Weil North on 3 December 1897, in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States. He lived in Mount Pleasant, Westchester, New York, United States in 1925 and Winter Park, Orange, Florida, United States in 1930. He died on 16 October 1933, in Black Mountain Township, Buncombe, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
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Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
Montgomery Ward was founded by Aaron Montgomery Ward after he observed that rural customers often wanted goods from the city but couldn’t get them because of distance and cost. Ward believed that he could cut costs and make a wide variety of goods available to rural customers. Ward and two partners used $1,600 to issue the first catalog in August 1872 and with its publication, rural retailers considered Ward a threat and publicly burned his catalog. Despite the opposition, however, the business grew at a fast pace over the next several decades and was almost as successful as Sears. In April 1944, U.S. Army troops seized the Chicago offices of Montgomery Ward & Company after President Roosevelt ordered it because of an unsettled strike request made by the workers. Eight months later, with Montgomery Ward continuing to refuse to recognize the unions, President Roosevelt issued an executive order seizing all of Montgomery Ward's property nationwide.
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.
English: probably an altered form of Lownsbrough, a habitational name from Londesborough in the East Yorkshire, which is named with the Old Norse personal name Lothinn + Old English burh ‘stronghold’.
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