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Arne Petersen 1899 - 1986

Arne Petersen of Viborg, Turner County, South Dakota was born on April 21, 1899, and died at age 86 years old in February 1986.
Arne Petersen
Viborg, Turner County, South Dakota 57070
April 21, 1899
February 1986
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    1899

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    April 21, 1899
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  • 02/dd
    1986

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    February 1986
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    Arne Petersen lived 11 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 86.
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In 1899, in the year that Arne Petersen was born, the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.
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In 1904, Arne was merely 5 years old when the "Teddy's Bear" was first produced. After seeing a political cartoon of President Teddy Roosevelt refusing to kill a clubbed and tied up bear, Jewish Russian immigrant Morris Michtom - who owned a candy shop and sold stuffed animals that he and his wife made at night at the store - made a "Teddy's Bear" and put it in his shop's window. The stuffed bears were an immediate success and Michtom and his wife went on to found the Ideal Novelty and Toy Co.
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