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Cleta Burns 1906 - 1980

Cleta Burns of Eagle Springs, Moore County, North Carolina was born on April 19, 1906, and died at age 74 years old in May 1980.
Cleta Burns
Eagle Springs, Moore County, North Carolina 27242
April 19, 1906
May 1980
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Cleta Burns' History: 1906 - 1980

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  • 04/19
    1906

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    April 19, 1906
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  • 05/dd
    1980

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    May 1980
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    Cleta Burns lived 2 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 74.
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In 1906, in the year that Cleta Burns 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 1911, when she was only 5 years old, the United States Supreme Court broke up Standard Oil in May. John D. Rockefeller established Standard Oil in 1870 and it was the largest oil refinery at the time. The Supreme Court found that Standard Oil of New Jersey (one of the many iterations of Standard Oil) was guilty of "monopolizing the petroleum industry through a series of abusive and anticompetitive actions". The Court broke up the several entities that comprised Standard Oil and they eventually became competing firms.
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