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Joseph Purdes 1906 - 1970

Joseph Purdes of Madison, Madison County, Illinois was born on January 28, 1906, and died at age 64 years old in July 1970.
Joseph Purdes
Madison, Madison County, Illinois 62060
January 28, 1906
July 1970
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  • 01/28
    1906

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    January 28, 1906
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  • 07/dd
    1970

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    July 1970
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    Joseph Purdes lived 15 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 64.
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In 1906, in the year that Joseph Purdes 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 1910, at the age of merely 4 years old, Joseph was alive when the Mexican revolution began. Dictator Porfirio Díaz had ruled for 35 years and was nationally unpopular. When elections were held in 1910 and a rigged election kept Diaz in office. The uprising began - and lasted for another 10 years.
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