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Alvah Gillespie 1899 - 1973

Alvah Gillespie of Lake Charles, Calcasieu County, Louisiana was born on March 27, 1899, and died at age 73 years old in February 1973.
Alvah Gillespie
Lake Charles, Calcasieu County, Louisiana 70601
March 27, 1899
February 1973
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Alvah Gillespie's History: 1899 - 1973

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    1899

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    March 27, 1899
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    1973

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    February 1973
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    Alvah Gillespie lived exactly as long as the average family member when died at the age of 73.
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In 1899, in the year that Alvah Gillespie 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 1920, by the time he was 21 years old, the Volstead Act became law. Formally called the National Prohibition Act, the Volstead Act enabled law enforcement agencies to carry out the 18th Amendment. It said that "no person shall manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, or furnish any intoxicating liquor except as authorized by this act" and defined intoxicating liquor as any beverage containing more than 0.5% alcohol by volume.
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