Lyle Clyde Bauguess
(1910 - 1974)
New Boston, Mercer County, Illinois United States 61272
Muscatine, Muscatine County, Iowa United States 52761
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Lyle C. Bauguess, 62, was found dead
at noon Friday at his home, 705
Woodlawn Ave.
Graveside services will be held at
10 a.m. Monday at the Memorial Park
cemetery, under the direction of the
Ralph J. Wittich Funeral Home.
Rev. Richard Mullen will officiate.
There will be no visitation.
Mr. Bauguess was born Dec. 30, 1911,
in New Boston, Ill., the son of Clyde
S. and Nola Browne Bauguess. He was a
longtime resident of Muscatine.
He married Alice Wentworth. He was a
member of the First Baptist church and
received a Ph. D. in biochemistry from
the University of Iowa at Iowa City.
He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Alice
Bauguess of Chicago, Ill:; two
daughters, Mrs. James Smalley of
Moline, and Mrs. Charles Corley of
Morrow, Ga.; and seven grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
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In 1910, in the year that Lyle Clyde Bauguess was born, the Mexican revolution began. Dictator Porfirio DÃaz 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.
In 1938, at the age of 28 years old, Lyle 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."
In 1953, when he was 43 years old, actress and comedian Lucille Ball gave birth to Desi Arnaz, Jr on January 19th. On the same day on "I Love Lucy", the fictional Little Ricky was born as well. Baby Desi graced the cover of the first TV Guide magazine with a headline that read ""Lucy's $50,000,000 baby" - because the commercial revenue from his birth was expected to be that amount.
In 1965, when he was 55 years old, on March 8th, the first US combat troops arrived in Vietnam. The 3500 Marines joined 23,000 "advisors" already in South Vietnam. By the end of the year, 190,000 American soldiers were in the country.
In 1974, in the year of Lyle Clyde Bauguess's passing, on July 30th, the House Judiciary Committee adopted three articles of impeachment against President Nixon. He was charged with obstruction of justice, failure to uphold laws, and the refusal to produce material subpoenaed by the committee. In order to avoid impeachment, Richard M. Nixon announced that he would resign on August 8th, the first President to do so.
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