When Webster Orville Bashioum was born on 20 December 1887, in Tarrs, East Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, George W Bashioum, was 29 and his mother, Caroline Anne Boyer, was 28. He married Florence Ida Pearl Ross on 22 August 1908, in Greensburg, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in East Huntingdon, South Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States for about 30 years. He died on 3 February 1957, in East Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Mount Lebanon United Methodist Church Cemetery, Tarrs, East Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, 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.
The world’s first movie theater was located in Pittsburgh. It was referred to as a nickelodeon as at the time it only cost 5 cents to get in.
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.
Transferred use of the surname, in origin an occupational name for a weaver, Old English webbestre (a derivative of webb ‘web’). The -estre suffix was originally feminine, but by the Middle English period the gender distinction had been lost. Use as a given name in America no doubt owes something to the politician and orator Daniel Webster ( 1782–1852 ) and the lexicographer Noah Webster ( 1758–1843 ).
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