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Roland Thorpe 1894 - 1972

Roland Thorpe of Newport News, Newport News City County, Virginia was born on April 1, 1894, and died at age 78 years old in August 1972.

Roland Thorpe

Newport News, Newport News City County, Virginia 23602

April 1, 1894

August 1972

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In 1894, in the year that Roland Thorpe 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 1904, when he was merely 10 years old, 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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