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Walter Galvin 1899 - 1970

Walter Galvin of Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa was born on October 4, 1899, and died at age 70 years old in June 1970.
Walter Galvin
Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa 52601
October 4, 1899
June 1970
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    October 4, 1899
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    1970

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    June 1970
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    Walter Galvin lived 3 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 70.
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In 1899, in the year that Walter Galvin 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 1906, by the time he was only 7 years old, 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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