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Alma Smilor 1884 - 1977

Alma Smilor of Avon Lake, Lorain County, Ohio was born on December 19, 1884, and died at age 92 years old in May 1977.
Alma Smilor
Avon Lake, Lorain County, Ohio 44012
December 19, 1884
May 1977
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    1884

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    December 19, 1884
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  • 05/dd
    1977

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    May 1977
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    Alma Smilor lived 22 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 92.
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In 1884, in the year that Alma Smilor was born, on May 1st, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions - a US association - first resolved that "eight hours shall constitute a legal day's labour from and after May 1, 1886, and that we recommend to labour organisations throughout this jurisdiction that they so direct their laws as to conform to this resolution by the time named." Previously, workdays would consist of 10 to 16 hours a day - 6 days a week. It would take years before the 8 hour workday became common practice - and longer before it became a law.
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In 1904, when she was 20 years old, the "Teddy's Bear" was first produced. After seeing a political cartoon of President Teddy Roosevelt refusing to kill a clubbed and tied up bear, Jewish Russian immigrant Morris Michtom - who owned a candy shop and sold stuffed animals that he and his wife made at night at the store - made a "Teddy's Bear" and put it in his shop's window. The stuffed bears were an immediate success and Michtom and his wife went on to found the Ideal Novelty and Toy Co.
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