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John Oetzel 1899 - 1986

John Oetzel of Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, PA was born on February 17, 1899, and died at age 87 years old in February 1986.
John Oetzel
Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, PA 17022
February 17, 1899
February 1986
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    1899

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    February 17, 1899
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    1986

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    February 1986
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    John Oetzel lived 8 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 86.
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In 1899, in the year that John Oetzel was born, the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.
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In 1909, at the age of just 10 years old, John was alive when the New York Times published the first movie review. It was a report on D.W. Griffith's movie "Pippa Passes" also called "The Song of Conscience", a silent film. The review said that this work was moving away from "lurid material that attracted the wrath of censors and concerned citizens and toward more respectable ends. The movie was the story of a young female factory worker, on her day off, wandering and singing - thus changing the hearts of those around her towards good.
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