When Earl Shellburn Ball was born on 26 April 1899, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Clegget Minor Ball, was 30 and his mother, Jessie Geddis Wilson, was 22. He married Lois C Smith on 20 June 1921, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He lived in Los Angeles Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940 and Burbank, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1950. He registered for military service in 1918. He died on 2 March 1974, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Grand View Memorial Park, Glendale, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Historical Boundaries: 1907: Imperial, California, United States
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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.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: from Middle English bal, ball(e) ‘ball, sphere, globe, round body’ (Old French balle or Old English beall(a)), a nickname for a short, obese person.
English: topographic name for someone who lived on or by a knoll or rounded hill, from the same Middle English word, bal(le) as in 1 above, but applied topographically.
English: from a Middle English adjective ball (weak form balle) in the sense ‘bald’, from ball ‘white streak, bald place’.
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