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Richard H Smith 1917 - 1999

Richard H Smith of Des Moines, Polk County, IA was born on August 31, 1917, and died at age 82 years old on December 31, 1999.
Richard H Smith
Des Moines, Polk County, IA 50313
August 31, 1917
December 31, 1999
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  • 08/31
    1917

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    August 31, 1917
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  • 12/31
    1999

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    December 31, 1999
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In 1917, in the year that Richard H Smith was born, Russian government offices were seized and the Romanov's Winter Palace was stormed in the Russian February and October Revolutions. The February revolution resulted in the abdication of Tsar Nicholas and a coalition of the Parliament and workers parties taking control of the government. The October revolution resulted in Lenin and the Bolsheviks taking complete control.
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In 1920, he was just 3 years old when speakeasies replaced saloons as the center of social activity. After the 18th Amendment was ratified and selling alcohol became illegal, saloons closed and speakeasies took their place. Speakeasies, also called a blind pig or blind tiger, were "so called because of the practice of speaking quietly about such a place in public, or when inside it, so as not to alert the police or neighbors". There were a lot of them and they were very popular. And where saloons often prohibited women, they were encouraged at speakeasies because of the added profits.
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