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Dora West 1884 - 1979

Dora West of Vinita, Craig County, Oklahoma was born on March 25, 1884, and died at age 95 years old in May 1979.
Dora West
Vinita, Craig County, Oklahoma 74301
March 25, 1884
May 1979
Female
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    1884

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    March 25, 1884
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  • 05/dd
    1979

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    May 1979
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    Dora West lived 23 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 95.
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In 1884, in the year that Dora West 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 1905, Dora was 21 years old when the first movie theater opened in the United States in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was the first theater to show nothing but movies - silent films. Two men, John P. Harris and his brother-in-law Harry Davis, opened the Nickelodeon on Smithfield Street - charging 5 cents for admission. The first day, 450 people watched movies at the new theater - on the second day, more than 1500 people stood in line to get in.
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