When Mary Victoria Braginton was born on 15 March 1901, in Manson, Calhoun, Iowa, United States, her father, George Frederick Braginton, was 28 and her mother, Anna Burton Greenside, was 27. She immigrated to New York City, New York, United States in 1950 and lived in United States in 1973 and Stillman Valley, Ogle, Illinois, United States in 1973. She died on 26 July 1973, in Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Manson, Calhoun, Iowa, United States.
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A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
At 792 feet above Broadway, the Woolworth Building became the tallest building in the world and held the record for 17 years. The Woolworth Building was overshadowed by the Chrysler Building at 1,046 feet in 1930 and the Empire State Building at 1,454 feet in 1931. Retailer and mogul Frank W. Woolworth commissioned the Woolworth Building in 1910 with the intent of his namesake building to be the tallest in the world. The 13 million dollar project was financed in cash by Woolworth which allowed him freedoms in the design and construction of the ornate, gothic building. An opening ceremony was held on April 24, 1913 at which President Woodrow Wilson pressed a button from the White House and lit the historic building in New York City.
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
From Hebrew. See Maria and Mary .
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