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Walter G Devries 1906 - 2001

Walter G Devries of Manteno, Kankakee County, IL was born on June 23, 1906, and died at age 95 years old on October 18, 2001.

Walter G Devries

Manteno, Kankakee County, IL 60950

June 23, 1906

October 18, 2001

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June 23, 1906

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2001

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October 18, 2001

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Walter G Devries lived 20 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 95.

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In 1906, in the year that Walter G Devries 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 1918, when he was merely 12 years old, following European countries, Daylight Saving Time went into effect in the United States in March. It was an effort to conserve fuel needed to produce electric power. This was a war effort and proved unpopular so in most areas of the United States, Daylight Saving Time ended after World War I. It returned during World War II.

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