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John Russell Shimmin 1916 - 2005

John Russell Shimmin of Duluth, Saint Louis County, Minnesota was born on May 5, 1916, and died at age 89 years old on December 25, 2005.

John Russell Shimmin

Duluth, Saint Louis County, Minnesota 55802

May 5, 1916

December 25, 2005

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John Russell Shimmin lived 14 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 89.

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In 1916, in the year that John Russell Shimmin was born, visiting nurse Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. at 46 Amboy St. in Brooklyn New York. Ten days after the clinic opened, Sanger was arrested for "violating laws against giving out birth control information" which was defined as obscenity. The clinic was not handing out birth control - just information about sex and birth control methods. (The Comstock law categorized information about abortion, family planning, and contraception as “obscene”.) The clinics and organizations that Sanger established later evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

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In 1920, John was only 4 years old when speakeasies replaced saloons as the center of social activity. After the 18th Amendment was ratified and selling alcohol became illegal, saloons closed and speakeasies took their place. Speakeasies, also called a blind pig or blind tiger, were "so called because of the practice of speaking quietly about such a place in public, or when inside it, so as not to alert the police or neighbors". There were a lot of them and they were very popular. And where saloons often prohibited women, they were encouraged at speakeasies because of the added profits.

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