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Lyda Cowles 1894 - 1979

Lyda Cowles of Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan was born on May 20, 1894, and died at age 85 years old in October 1979.
Lyda Cowles
Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan 49008
May 20, 1894
October 1979
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Lyda Cowles' History: 1894 - 1979

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    1894

    Birthday

    May 20, 1894
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  • 10/dd
    1979

    Death

    October 1979
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    Lyda Cowles lived 10 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 85.
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In 1894, in the year that Lyda Cowles was born, on March 12th, for the first time, Coca-Cola was sold in individual bottles as a drink for consumer consumption. Previously, it was sold as a syrup for upset stomachs - over the counter.
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In 1933, at the age of 39 years old, Lyda was alive when the day after being inaugurated, the new President, Franklin Roosevelt, declared a four-day bank holiday to stop people from withdrawing their money from shaky banks (the bank run). Within 5 days of his administration, the Emergency Banking Act was passed - reorganizing banks and closing insolvent ones. In his first 100 days, he asked Congress to repeal Prohibition (which they did), signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, signed legislation that paid commodity farmers to leave their fields fallow, thus ending surpluses and boosting prices, signed a bill that gave workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively for higher wages and better working conditions as well as suspending some antitrust laws and establishing a federally funded Public Works Administration, and won passage of 12 other major laws that helped the economy.
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