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Bessie Devine 1884 - 1967

Bessie Devine of Friendsville, Garrett County, Maryland was born on July 21, 1884, and died at age 83 years old in December 1967.
Bessie Devine
Friendsville, Garrett County, Maryland 21531
July 21, 1884
December 1967
Female
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    1884

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    July 21, 1884
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  • 12/dd
    1967

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    December 1967
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In 1884, in the year that Bessie Devine 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 1899, when she was just 15 years old, the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.
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