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Bertha Olson 1884 - 1972

Bertha Olson of Mount Vernon, Skagit County, Washington was born on March 7, 1884, and died at age 88 years old in October 1972.
Bertha Olson
Mount Vernon, Skagit County, Washington 98273
March 7, 1884
October 1972
Female
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Bertha Olson's History: 1884 - 1972

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    1884

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    March 7, 1884
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  • 10/dd
    1972

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    October 1972
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    Bertha Olson lived 13 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 88.
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In 1884, in the year that Bertha Olson 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 1909, when she was 25 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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