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John Kress 1904 - 1975

John Kress of Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, PA was born on May 16, 1904, and died at age 71 years old in October 1975.
John Kress
Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, PA 17976
May 16, 1904
October 1975
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    1904

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    May 16, 1904
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    1975

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    October 1975
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    John Kress lived 4 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 71.
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In 1904, in the year that John Kress was born, the "Teddy's Bear" was first produced. After seeing a political cartoon of President Teddy Roosevelt refusing to kill a clubbed and tied up bear, Jewish Russian immigrant Morris Michtom - who owned a candy shop and sold stuffed animals that he and his wife made at night at the store - made a "Teddy's Bear" and put it in his shop's window. The stuffed bears were an immediate success and Michtom and his wife went on to found the Ideal Novelty and Toy Co.
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In 1922, by the time he was 18 years old, on June 22, coal miners in Herrin Illinois, were on strike (coal miners had been on strike nationally since April 1). The striking miners were outraged at the strikebreakers (scabs) that the company had brought in and laid siege to the mine. Three union workers were killed when gunfire was exchanged. The next day, union miners killed 23 strikebreakers and mine guards. No one, on either side, ever faced jail time.
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