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Berta Knowles 1899 - 1967

Berta Knowles of Roanoke, Roanoke City County, Virginia was born on August 29, 1899, and died at age 67 years old in February 1967.
Berta Knowles
Roanoke, Roanoke City County, Virginia 24015
August 29, 1899
February 1967
Female
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    1899

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    August 29, 1899
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    1967

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    February 1967
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    Berta Knowles lived 6 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 67.
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In 1899, in the year that Berta Knowles was born, on February 4th, the Philippine–American War began. The Philippines objected to the Treaty of Paris, signed in 1898, that transferred possession of the Philippines from Spain to the U.S. Filipinos began a fight for independence and fighting between U.S. forces and those of the Philippine Republic broke out. On June 2nd, the Philippines officially declared war on the United States.
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In 1909, by the time she was just 10 years old, the New York Times published the first movie review. It was a report on D.W. Griffith's movie "Pippa Passes" also called "The Song of Conscience", a silent film. The review said that this work was moving away from "lurid material that attracted the wrath of censors and concerned citizens and toward more respectable ends. The movie was the story of a young female factory worker, on her day off, wandering and singing - thus changing the hearts of those around her towards good.
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