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Ruth M Like 1906 - 1995

Ruth M Like of Plainwell, Allegan County, MI was born on March 2, 1906, and died at age 89 years old on June 11, 1995.
Ruth M Like
Plainwell, Allegan County, MI 49080
March 2, 1906
June 11, 1995
Female
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    1906

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    March 2, 1906
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  • 06/11
    1995

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    June 11, 1995
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    Ruth M Like lived 17 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 89.
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In 1906, in the year that Ruth M Like 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 1914, she was merely 8 years old when President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Anna Jarvis had championed a Mother's Day for years but Congress had joked a few years earlier that then they would have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day" as well. The President who championed a woman's right to vote also created a day in their honor.
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