When Orton David Sims was born on 7 July 1904, in Hill City, Graham, Kansas, United States, his father, David Paris Sims, was 30 and his mother, Edna May Chapman, was 27. He lived in Hays, Ellis, Kansas, United States in 1930 and Grand Junction, Mesa, Colorado, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1942. He died on 17 September 1981, in Bell, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 77.
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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.
In 1879, railroad tycoon, Charles Elliott Perkins bought 240 acres whrere The Garden of the Gods is located, and planned to use it as a summer home. Perkins died in 1907 before he could establish it as a public park. Perkin's children donated the now 480 acres to the city of Colorado Springs, to become a public park.
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
English (southern):
variant of Sim , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
topographic name for one who lived or worked at the house of someone called Symme (Simon).
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