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Roberta Wood 1879 - 1969

Roberta Wood of Burgaw, Pender County, North Carolina was born on August 24, 1879, and died at age 90 years old in October 1969.
Roberta Wood
Burgaw, Pender County, North Carolina 28425
August 24, 1879
October 1969
Female
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    1879

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    August 24, 1879
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    1969

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    October 1969
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In 1879, in the year that Roberta Wood was born, on October 22nd, Thomas Edison tested the first practical electric light bulb. Lasting 13½ hours before burning out, it used a "a carbon filament or strip coiled and connected to platina contact wires". He applied for a patent on November 4th, receiving the patent in January 1880.
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In 1938, she was 59 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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