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Before the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act, most food oversight was mandated to state laws, which were enacted during the colonial days and served mainly trade interests. [1] They set standards of weight, and "provided for inspections of exports like salt meats, fish and flour". [ 1 ]
April 18: 1906 San Francisco earthquake. April 5 – The Maryland General Assembly authorises the erection of the Union Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Baltimore . April 14 – The first service is held at African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles by W. J. Seymour, in a series later known as the Azusa Street Revival , an event which ...
The 1906 statute regulated food and drugs moving in interstate commerce and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of poisonous patent medicines. [6] The Act arose due to public education and exposés from public interest guardians such as Upton Sinclair and Samuel Hopkins Adams, social activist Florence Kelley , researcher Harvey W ...
1927 – Columbia Broadcasting System (later called CBS) was founded, and becomes the second national radio network in the U.S. 1927 – The 15,000,000th Model T rolled off the Assembly Line at Ford Motor Company. 1927 – Babe Ruth hits a record 60 home runs in a single season
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In fact, a gallon of 2% has more than half the fat as a gallon of whole milk. The FDA requires whole milk to have at least 3.25$ fat by weight. But the amount of fat can range from 3.25$ to 5 ...
1906 Typesetting. Typesetting is the retrieval of the stored letters and the ordering of them according to a language's orthography for visual display. Typesetting was invented by John Raphael Rogers of Brooklyn, New York, who filed U.S. patent #837127 on October 8, 1906, and issued to him on November 27, 1906. [119] [120] 1906 Flushometer
1906 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1906th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 906th year of the 2nd millennium, the 6th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1906, the ...