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Blanche M Riggs 1904 - 1996

Blanche M Riggs of Clay Center, Clay County, KS was born on January 7, 1904, and died at age 92 years old on December 1, 1996.
Blanche M Riggs
Clay Center, Clay County, KS 67432
January 7, 1904
December 1, 1996
Female
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  • 01/7
    1904

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    January 7, 1904
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  • 12/1
    1996

    Death

    December 1, 1996
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    Blanche M Riggs lived 20 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 92.
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In 1904, in the year that Blanche M Riggs was born, 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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In 1934, by the time she was 30 years old, on July 22nd, gangster John Dillinger was killed in Chicago. His gang had robbed banks and police stations, among other charges, and he was being hunted by J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI - although many in the public saw him as a "Robin Hood". A madam from a brothel in which he was hiding became an informer for the FBI and, after a shootout with FBI agents, Dillinger was shot and died.
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