When Sylvia Viola McLaughlin was born on 31 August 1886, in Peoria, Illinois, United States, her father, Jessie M. McLaughlin, was 30 and her mother, Anna Laura Roach, was 18. She married William Henry Osborne on 10 November 1908, in Lebanon, Center Township, Boone, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Thorntown, Sugar Creek Township, Boone, Indiana, United States in 1900 and Sugar Creek Township, Boone, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. She died on 8 May 1921, in Boone, Indiana, United States, at the age of 34, and was buried in Maple Lawn Cemetery, Thorntown, Sugar Creek Township, Boone, Indiana, 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 Chicago River Canal was built as a sewage treatment scheme to help the city's drinking water not to get contaminated. While the Canal was being constructed the Chicago River's flow was reversed so it could be treated before draining back out into Lake Michigan.
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Donal, Siobhan, Aileen, Caitlin, Keane, Liam, Padric, Aine, Ciaran, Conan, Conley.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Lochlainn ‘son of the Norseman’, from the personal name Lochlann ‘stranger, Norseman’, from a term denoting Scandinavia (possibly ‘land of lakes/fjords’). This was a ruling family in Ulster. See also Laughlin and compare the Scottish form McLachlan .
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