When Hazel Marie Phelps was born on 23 March 1905, in Lawrence, Nuckolls, Nebraska, United States, her father, Clark Morris Phelps, was 47 and her mother, Julia Alverta Blood, was 41. She married Donald B Nelson on 22 April 1925, in Washington, Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Washington, Colorado, United States for about 15 years and Election Precinct 15 De Nova, Washington, Colorado, United States in 1940. She died on 12 January 1994, in Denver, Colorado, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Wheat Ridge, Jefferson, Colorado, United States.
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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.
In 1879, railroad tycoon, Charles Elliott Perkins bought 240 acres whrere The Garden of the Gods is located, and planned to use it as a summer home. Perkins died in 1907 before he could establish it as a public park. Perkin's children donated the now 480 acres to the city of Colorado Springs, to become a public park.
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
Scottish and English (southwestern): variant of Phillips .
History: The brothers George and William Phelps emigrated from Gloucestershire, England, to Dorchester, MA, c. 1630. Five years later they moved to Windsor, CT. George's sixth-generation descendant, Anson Greene Phelps (1781–1853), rose from being a penniless orphan to the status of a major industrialist and a prominent CT philanthropist.
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