When Elmer B Parkison was born on 29 January 1882, in Shelby, Tennessee, United States, his father, Thomas Wylie Parkinson, was 23 and his mother, Mary Agness Sloan, was 22. He lived in Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States for about 20 years and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1950. He died on 31 March 1969, at the age of 87, and was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery Midtown, Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.
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.
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