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Dewey Wedel 1906 - 1999

Dewey Wedel of Hesston, Harvey County, KS was born on September 1, 1906, and died at age 92 years old on July 21, 1999.
Dewey Wedel
Hesston, Harvey County, KS 67062
September 1, 1906
July 21, 1999
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  • 09/1
    1906

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    September 1, 1906
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  • 07/21
    1999

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    July 21, 1999
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    Dewey Wedel lived 16 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 92.
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In 1906, in the year that Dewey Wedel was born, author Upton Sinclair exposed the public-health threat of the meat-packing industry in his book The Jungle. While his intent was to show the lives of exploited lives of immigrants in Chicago and other industrialized cities, most people were horrified by how the meat that ended up on their tables was handled. There was such an outcry that legislation was passed to regulate meat packing. Sinclair said " "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
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In 1916, at the age of only 10 years old, Dewey was alive when in June, the U.S. Congress authorized a plan to expand the armed forces over the next five years. Called the National Defense Act of 1916, the national law expanded the National Guard and Army (the Army added an aviation unit), created the Reserves, and gave the President expanded authority to federalize the National Guard. It also allowed the government to stockpile, in advance, materiel to be used in wartime.
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