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Elsie B Block 1911 - 2003

Elsie B Block of Des Moines, Polk County, IA was born on March 13, 1911, and died at age 92 years old on October 10, 2003.
Elsie B Block
Des Moines, Polk County, IA 50316
March 13, 1911
October 10, 2003
Female
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  • 03/13
    1911

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    March 13, 1911
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  • 10/10
    2003

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    October 10, 2003
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    Elsie B Block lived 17 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 92.
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In 1911, in the year that Elsie B Block was born, the United States Supreme Court broke up Standard Oil in May. John D. Rockefeller established Standard Oil in 1870 and it was the largest oil refinery at the time. The Supreme Court found that Standard Oil of New Jersey (one of the many iterations of Standard Oil) was guilty of "monopolizing the petroleum industry through a series of abusive and anticompetitive actions". The Court broke up the several entities that comprised Standard Oil and they eventually became competing firms.
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In 1933, she was 22 years old when on December 5th, the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified. The 21st Amendment said "The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed." Alcohol was legal again! It was the only amendment to the Constitution approved for the explicit purpose of repealing a previously existing amendment. South Carolina was the only state to reject the Amendment.
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