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Jake Poppenga 1891 - 1974

Jake Poppenga of Topeka, Mason County, Illinois was born on September 26, 1891, and died at age 82 years old in March 1974.
Jake Poppenga
Topeka, Mason County, Illinois 61567
September 26, 1891
March 1974
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Jake Poppenga's History: 1891 - 1974

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    1891

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    September 26, 1891
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  • 03/dd
    1974

    Death

    March 1974
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    Jake Poppenga lived 10 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 82.
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In 1891, in the year that Jake Poppenga was born, James Naismith, at the Springfield Massachusetts YMCA, invented the game of basketball. Originally using two peach baskets and a soccer ball, he created the game to keep his students active during the long, harsh New England winters.
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In 1938, at the age of 47 years old, Jake was alive when on June 25th (a Saturday) the Fair Labor Standards Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt (along with 120 other bills). The Act banned oppressive child labor, set the minimum hourly wage at 25 cents, and established the maximum workweek at 44 hours. It faced a lot of opposition and in fighting for it, Roosevelt said "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, ...tell you...that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry."
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