When John Bowers was born on 18 October 1919, in Raleigh, Saline, Illinois, United States, his father, William Bowers, was 29 and his mother, Blanch Murphy, was 23. He lived in Raleigh Township, Saline, Illinois, United States in 1930. He died on 17 October 2003, in Kuttawa, Lyon, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 83.
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The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
The first Woman's World's Fair was held in Chicago in 1925. The idea of the completely women-run fair was to display the progress of ideas, work, and products of twentieth-century women
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
English: variant of Bower , with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s.
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