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Bessie Carr 1904 - 1982

Bessie Carr of Cookeville, Putnam County, Tennessee was born on September 17, 1904, and died at age 78 years old in November 1982.
Bessie Carr
Cookeville, Putnam County, Tennessee 38501
September 17, 1904
November 1982
Female
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    1904

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    September 17, 1904
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    1982

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    November 1982
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In 1904, in the year that Bessie Carr was born, 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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In 1922, Bessie was 18 years old when on June 22, coal miners in Herrin Illinois, were on strike (coal miners had been on strike nationally since April 1). The striking miners were outraged at the strikebreakers (scabs) that the company had brought in and laid siege to the mine. Three union workers were killed when gunfire was exchanged. The next day, union miners killed 23 strikebreakers and mine guards. No one, on either side, ever faced jail time.
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