When Stella Caroline Amos was born on 13 April 1921, in Arkansas, United States, her father, Thomas Amos, was 36 and her mother, Asena Florence Shrader, was 33. She had at least 1 son and 2 daughters with Riley Odest Deaver. She lived in Benton, Arkansas, United States in 1935 and Election Precinct 53 Catching Creek, Coos, Oregon, United States in 1940. She died on 21 October 1977, in Orange, Orange, California, United States, at the age of 56.
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In 1922, Harvey C. Couch Sr. started WOK the first radio station in Arkansas. After a trip to Pittsburgh and the KDKA radio he came up with the idea for Workers of Killowatts (WOK). WOK had no commercials which was nice for the listeners.
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
The Neutrality Acts were passed in response to the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia during the time leading up to World War II. The primary purpose was so the US wouldn't engage in any more foreign conflicts. Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
English and Scottish: variant of Amis , assimilated in spelling to the Biblical name (see 2 below). It occurs chiefly in southeastern England.
Jewish, German, English, Scottish, and Welsh: from the Hebrew personal name Amos, of uncertain origin, in some traditions connected with the Hebrew verb amos ‘to carry’, and assigned the meaning ‘borne by God’. This was the name of a Biblical prophet of the 8th century BC , whose oracles are recorded in the Book of Amos. This was one of the Biblical names taken up by Puritans and Nonconformists in the 16th–17th centuries, too late to have had much influence on surname formationm in Britain, except in Wales.
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