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Bertha Carrington 1911 - 1973

Bertha Carrington of Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina was born on September 17, 1911, and died at age 62 years old in October 1973.
Bertha Carrington
Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina 29204
September 17, 1911
October 1973
Female
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    1911

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    September 17, 1911
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    1973

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    October 1973
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    Bertha Carrington lived 9 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 62.
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In 1911, in the year that Bertha Carrington was born, 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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In 1920, she was just 9 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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