When Berdie Ridenour was born on 15 April 1905, in Crawford, Indiana, United States, her father, Edward Monroe Ridenour, was 25 and her mother, Christina Limp, was 24. She married Clarence Everett Sanders on 21 June 1924, in Orange Township, Fayette, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Patoka Township, Crawford, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. She died on 13 August 1983, in Dubois, Indiana, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Mentor Cemetery, Mentor, Jefferson Township, Dubois, Indiana, United States.
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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.
The town of Gary, Indiana, was founded by the United States Steel Corporation in 1906. The Gary Works steel mill was the largest integrated mill in North America. The city of Gary was named after Elbert Henry Gary who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation and American lawyer and county judge. Gary partnered with J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Charles M. Schwab to found the United States Steel Corporation.
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Americanized form of Swiss German and South German Reitenauer or Alsatian Reutenauer: topographic name from Old High German riuti ‘clearing’ + ouwe ‘wet meadow’, suffix -er denoting an inhabitant. Compare Rednour , Ridenhour , Ridnour , Ritenour , and Whritenour .
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