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Myrtle Beard 1904 - 1979

Myrtle Beard of Meridian, Lauderdale County, Mississippi was born on March 6, 1904, and died at age 74 years old in February 1979.
Myrtle Beard
Meridian, Lauderdale County, Mississippi 39301
March 6, 1904
February 1979
Female
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Myrtle Beard's History: 1904 - 1979

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    1904

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    March 6, 1904
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  • 02/dd
    1979

    Death

    February 1979
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    Myrtle Beard lived 2 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 74.
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In 1904, in the year that Myrtle Beard was born, the "Teddy's Bear" was first produced. After seeing a political cartoon of President Teddy Roosevelt refusing to kill a clubbed and tied up bear, Jewish Russian immigrant Morris Michtom - who owned a candy shop and sold stuffed animals that he and his wife made at night at the store - made a "Teddy's Bear" and put it in his shop's window. The stuffed bears were an immediate success and Michtom and his wife went on to found the Ideal Novelty and Toy Co.
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In 1910, at the age of just 6 years old, Myrtle was alive when the Mann Act, also called the White-Slave Traffic Act, was signed into law. Its purpose was to make it a felony to engage in interstate or foreign commerce transport of "any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose". But the language was so broad that it was also applied to consensual sex between adults when wished.
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