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Jerry Devries 1906 - 1987

Jerry Devries of Thornton, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa was born on January 30, 1906, and died at age 81 years old in May 1987.

Jerry Devries

Thornton, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa 50479

January 30, 1906

May 1987

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In 1906, in the year that Jerry Devries 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 1915, he was just 9 years old when in May, the RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German torpedo. The Lusitania was a British passenger ship that was sailing from New York to Liverpool England. She sank in 18 minutes - 1,198 died and 761 survived. While travelers were the main casualty - and commodity - the Lusitania did carry wartime weapons. "Remember the Lusitania" became the rallying cry of World War 1.

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