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Melva Garrett 1896 - 1987

Melva Garrett of Catawba, Roanoke County, Virginia was born on November 15, 1896, and died at age 90 years old in June 1987.
Melva Garrett
Catawba, Roanoke County, Virginia 24070
November 15, 1896
June 1987
Female
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  • 11/15
    1896

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    November 15, 1896
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  • 06/dd
    1987

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    June 1987
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    Melva Garrett lived 19 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 90.
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In 1896, in the year that Melva Garrett was born, in April, the first study on global warming due to CO2 - carbon dioxide - in the atmosphere was published by Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius. Arrhenius concluded that human activity due to the Industrial Revolution would amplify CO2 in the atmosphere, causing a greenhouse effect. His conclusions have been extensively tested in the ensuing 100+ years and are still seen to hold true.
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In 1938, when she was 42 years old, 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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