When Estel Clair Jones was born on 17 January 1886, in Neodesha, Wilson, Kansas, United States, his father, William Davis Jones, was 30 and his mother, Ida Luella Scribner, was 19. He married Ethel E 'Effie' Johnson on 24 November 1908, in Neodesha, Wilson, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Neodesha Township, Wilson, Kansas, United States in 1900 and Chetopa Township, Wilson, Kansas, United States in 1940. He died on 7 January 1962, in Sterling, Rice, Kansas, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Neodesha, Wilson, Kansas, United States.
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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.
An organization formed in favor of women's suffrages. By combining the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association, the NAWSA eventually increased in membership up to two million people. It is still one of the largest voluntary organizations in the nation today and held a major role in passing the Nineteenth Amendment.
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 and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. It began to be adopted as a non-hereditary surname in some parts of Wales from the 16th century onward, but did not become a widespread hereditary surname there until the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. It is (including in the sense 2 below) the fifth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
English: habitational or occupational name for someone who lived or worked ‘at John's (house)’.
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