Prior to 1915, purchasing associations had formed in at least 10 major cities in the country, including one of the earliest and most active groups in Buffalo, NY, founded in 1904, and the New York Association, formed in 1913, which eventually became the nucleus of the national organization.

Prior to 1904, Waimangu Geyser, in New Zealand, had some taller eruptions capable of reaching but in 1904 a landslide changed the local water table and since then Waimangu has not erupted.

Prior to 1904, a white, topi-style of pith helmet was standard issue ; however, plainsmen often preferred to ride wearing non-regulation cowboy hats and these subsequently became uniform issue in the form of the Stetson hat.

Prior to establishing their own company in 1904, Isotta and Fraschini assembled Renaults.

Prior to the general adoption of khaki by the Japanese Army after the Russo-Japanese War ( 1904 – 1905 ) an all white linen uniform had been worn in hot weather.

Prior to this, the finish had been held at the Parc des Princes from 1904 to 1967.

Prior to this, a Championship Final was introduced to determine the winner of the British Rugby Football League Championship in 1904, though it only became a regular fixture from 1906 onwards.

Prior to 1995, with the exception of 1904 when they played at the now defunct Jubilee Oval, the Panthers have played all their home games at the Adelaide Oval ( ironically located on the northern side of the Adelaide city centre ) while in 1993 they played a game at the Bice Oval in the southern suburb of Christies Beach to gauge support in the area for the Panthers.

Prior to its inclusion as a medal sport, it was held as demonstration event in 1904.

" Prior to the arrival of Greg Haslam in 2002, Westminster Chapel had four particularly well-known pastors: the Rev'd Samuel Martin ( 1842 – 1878 ), Dr G. Campbell Morgan ( 1904 – 1917 and 1933 – 1943 ), Dr D Martyn Lloyd-Jones ( 1939 – 1968 ) and Dr RT Kendall ( 1977 – 2002 ).

Prior to this definition, it was used by Persian-speakers ( and others influenced by Persian ) to denote the Pashtun people.

Prior to the Fremont expedition, the Washoe people inhabited the valley and surrounding areas.

Prior to the Crucifixion the Jews are called Israelites, the honorific title of God's chosen people ; after it, they are called " Ioudaioi ", Jews, a sign that through their rejection of the Christ the " kingdom of Heaven " has been taken away from them and given instead to the church.

Prior to British contact the Meriam people had lived on the islands in a subsistence economy based on cultivation and fishing.

Prior to the advent of effective antiretroviral therapy, as many as 5 % of people with AIDS eventually developed PML.

Prior to his death in 799, al-Kadhem was said to have prophesied that " A man will come out from Qom and he will summon people to the right path ".

Prior to the 19th century, suburb often referred to the outlying areas of cities where work was most inaccessible — implicitly, where the poorest people had to live.

Prior to the southwards migration of the Tai people from Yunnan in the 10th century, the Indochina peninsula had been a home to various indigenous animistic communities for as far back as 500, 000 years ago.

Prior to the arrival of the Tai people and culture into what is now Thailand, the region hosted a number of indigenous Mon-Khmer and Malay civilizations.

On 28 April, Powell spoke in the Commons against the Northern Ireland Secretary's ( Jim Prior ) plans for devolution to a power-sharing assembly in Northern Ireland: " We assured the people of the Falkland Islands that there should be no change in their status without their agreement.

Prior to the 1950s, the various stages of the recording and marketing process had been carried out by different professionals within the industry – A & R managers found potential new artists and signed them to their labels ; professional songwriters created new material ; publishing agents sold these songs to the A & R people ; staff engineers carried out the task of making the recordings in company-owned studios.

Tausen's preaching converted ordinary people, merchants, nobles, and monks and even the Prior grew to appreciate Tausen and ordered his release.

Prior to the rise of the fast food chain restaurant, people generally had a choice between greasy spoon diners where the quality of the food was often questionable and service lacking, or high-end restaurants that were expensive and impractical for families with children.

Prior studies had also assumed a clear glycemic threshold between people at high and low risk of diabetic retinopathy .< ref name =" pmid9203460 "> However, it has been shown that the widely accepted WHO and American Diabetes Association diagnostic cutoff for diabetes of a fasting plasma glucose ≥ 7. 0 mmol / l ( 126 mg / dl ) does not accurately identify diabetic retinopathy among patients.

Prior to that, education was limited to monastic teachings in monasteries, except for a few privileged people who went to Darjeeling to receive western-type education.

Prior to the European settlement of Australia, the Benalla region was populated by the Taungurong people people, an Indigenous Australian people.

Their politics may be different but such people share the morality of Laval and Pétain ... they are willing not only to tolerate evil, but to excuse it ... Both Jim Prior and Keith Joseph know that George Ward and Grunwick are not perfect, nor was Czechoslovakia perfect in 1938.

Prior to European settlement, Groote Eylandt had been inhabited by Aboriginal people for thousands of years and there had been regular contact between local Aboriginals and Macassan traders, evident in the names of some Groote Eylandt settlements, such as Umbakumba, which can be traced back to a Macassan origin.

Prior to Aeneas ' arrival in Italy, Turnus was the primary potential suitor of Lavinia, daughter of Latinus, King of the Latin people.

Prior to the arrival of European settlers, the land that would become Nottoway County was inhabited by American Indians of the Nadowa tribe, an Iroquoian people.

Prior to the Land Run of 1893, Garfield County was named O County and was part of the Cherokee Outlet, occupied by the Cherokee people following the Treaty of New Echota and the Cherokee trail of tears.

Prior to the 15th century AD, Polynesian people fanned out to the east, to the Cook Islands, and from there to other groups such as Tahiti and the Marquesas.

Prior to settlement by non-indigenous people, it was mostly covered with dense forests consisting of oak, beech, maple, walnut, hickory, sycamore and tulip trees.

Prior to European contact, the Batswana lived as herders and farmers under tribal rule.

Prior to this assignment, no women had lived on island since those on the plantation in 1971.

Prior to 1951, Communism lived within the urban labor forces in small study groups during 1944 to 1953 which it had a tremendous influence on these urban labor forces.

Prior to Chris Farley's death, the two lived in adjacent residences.

Prior to 1868 the Capote ( Kapota ) band of Ute Indians lived in the valley.

Prior to August 1981, no great white shark in captivity lived longer than 11 days.

Prior to the arrival of the missionaries, some 550 natives were scattered throughout the local area ; by 1790, the number of converted Christians had grown to 700, and just six years later nearly 1, 000 " neophytes " ( recent converts ) lived in or around the Mission compound.

Prior to 1921 " Uzbek " and " Sart " were considered to be different dialects ; " Uzbek " was a vowel-harmonised Kipchak dialect spoken by descendants of those who arrived in Transoxiana with Shaybani Khan in the 16th century, who lived mainly around Bukhara and Samarkand, although the Turkic spoken in Tashkent was also vowel-harmonised ; " Sart " was a Qarluq dialect spoken by the older settled Turkic populations of the region in the Ferghana Valley and the Kashka-Darya region, and in some parts of what is now the Samarkand Province ; it contained a heavier admixture of Persian and Arabic, and did not use vowel-harmony.

Prior to World War II, more than 10 million ethnic Germans lived in Central and Eastern Europe.

Prior to European contact, the area was inhabited by the Mocama, a Timucuan-speaking group who lived throughout the coastal areas of northern Florida.

Prior to his tenure in office, the city's municipal administration was notably lax with regards to public works, and many urban dwellers lived in conditions of great poverty.

" Prior to the Early Dynastic period, kings were subordinate to priests, and often lived in the same temple complex where the priests lived.

Prior to European settlement, Native American tribes, including the Quapaw and later the Cherokee Indians, lived in the area.

Prior to European settlement, the Minquas ( or Susquehannock ) peoples lived in and around modern-day Newport.

Prior to British colonization, the Connecticut River valley was populated by bands of the Western Abenaki, who lived in sometimes-large villages of longhouses.

Prior to arrival of European settlers, the Secatogue tribe of Algonquin native-American people, lived in the area now known as Central Islip.

Prior to that time period, the Mi ’ kmaq lived in Acadia for centuries.

Prior to the 1840s when Euro-Americans settled the area, the Atfalati band of the Kalapuya Native American tribe lived on the Tualatin Plains in what is now Forest Grove.

Prior to, and during, the Civil War, many abolitionists lived in the area, and several locations within the town of Lewisburg served as stopping points on the famous Underground Railroad.

Prior to the founding of Waco in 1849, a Wichita Native American group known as the " Waco " ( Spanish: Hueco or Huaco ) lived on the land of present-day downtown Waco.

Prior to settlement by westerners, the Skykomish Indians lived in the area between Sultan and Index.

Prior to the European exploration it is likely the Mississippian culture tribe, the Oneota, lived in the area.

" The marriage took place in 1745, and from that time Warburton lived at his father-in-law's estate at Prior Park, in Gloucestershire, which he inherited on Allen's death in 1764.