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Douglas Oswald Shiels 1892 - 1979

Douglas Oswald Shiels of Melbourne Australia was born in 1892 to Isabella (Hill) Shiels and William Shiels. He had siblings Norman Lyndhurst Shiels, Douglas Oswald Shiels, William Geoffrey Shiels, and Douglas Oswald Shiels. Douglas Shiels died at age 87 years old in 1979 in Melbourne.
Douglas Oswald Shiels
Melbourne Australia
1892
1979
Melbourne, Australia
Male
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    1892
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  • 1979

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    1979
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    Melbourne Australia
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    Douglas Oswald Shiels lived 12 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 87.
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In 1892, in the year that Douglas Oswald Shiels was born, on October 5th, the Dalton Gang was shot. The Gang was attempting to rob two banks - simultaneously - in Coffeyville Kansas but word spread of the robberies and townspeople with guns greeted them when they left the banks. Four members of the gang were killed - only Emmett Dalton survived his wounds and spent 14 years in prison.
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In 1906, Douglas was just 14 years old when 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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