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Walter Benson 1899 - 1977

Walter Benson of Independence, Jackson County, Missouri was born on July 18, 1899, and died at age 78 years old in December 1977.
Walter Benson
Independence, Jackson County, Missouri 64055
July 18, 1899
December 1977
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    1899

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    July 18, 1899
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  • 12/dd
    1977

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    December 1977
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    Walter Benson lived 5 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 78.
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In 1899, in the year that Walter Benson was born, the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.
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In 1909, he was just 10 years old when the New York Times published the first movie review. It was a report on D.W. Griffith's movie "Pippa Passes" also called "The Song of Conscience", a silent film. The review said that this work was moving away from "lurid material that attracted the wrath of censors and concerned citizens and toward more respectable ends. The movie was the story of a young female factory worker, on her day off, wandering and singing - thus changing the hearts of those around her towards good.
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