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Ralph A Townsend 1906 - 1993

Ralph A Townsend of Roseburg, Douglas County, OR was born on January 8, 1906, and died at age 87 years old on January 24, 1993.

Ralph A Townsend

Roseburg, Douglas County, OR 97470

January 8, 1906

January 24, 1993

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In 1906, in the year that Ralph A Townsend 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 1921, at the age of just 15 years old, Ralph was alive when hugely popular Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, silent film star, was arrested for rape and manslaughter after an actress died following a party at his house. He was acquitted after three trials and the jury wrote a formal letter apologizing for the charges, but his career never recovered. His films were at first banned - the ban was lifted after a year - and he was mostly ostracized by the community. He died at 46..

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