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Jennie Covey 1905 - 1971

Jennie Covey of Binghamton, Broome County, NY was born on March 16, 1905, and died at age 66 years old in June 1971.
Jennie Covey
Binghamton, Broome County, NY 13905
March 16, 1905
June 1971
Female
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    1905

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    March 16, 1905
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    1971

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    June 1971
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    Jennie Covey lived 7 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 66.
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In 1905, in the year that Jennie Covey was born, 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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In 1938, Jennie was 33 years old when on June 25th (a Saturday) the Fair Labor Standards Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt (along with 120 other bills). The Act banned oppressive child labor, set the minimum hourly wage at 25 cents, and established the maximum workweek at 44 hours. It faced a lot of opposition and in fighting for it, Roosevelt said "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, ...tell you...that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry."
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