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Velma M Smail 1900 - 1994

Velma M Smail of Portland, Washington County, OR was born on August 8, 1900, and died at age 93 years old on March 20, 1994.
Velma M Smail
Portland, Washington County, OR 97223
August 8, 1900
March 20, 1994
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  • 08/8
    1900

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    August 8, 1900
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  • 03/20
    1994

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    March 20, 1994
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    Velma M Smail lived 19 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 93.
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In 1900, in the year that Velma M Smail was born, a massive hurricane, known as the Great Galveston hurricane, hit Galveston Texas. Winds hit up to 145 miles an hour (category 4) and it remains the single most deadly event in U.S. history. Between 6,000 and 12,000 died (most estimates are around 8,000 dead). The population of Galveston at the time was about 36,000 people in 1900.
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In 1920, when she was 20 years old, speakeasies replaced saloons as the center of social activity. After the 18th Amendment was ratified and selling alcohol became illegal, saloons closed and speakeasies took their place. Speakeasies, also called a blind pig or blind tiger, were "so called because of the practice of speaking quietly about such a place in public, or when inside it, so as not to alert the police or neighbors". There were a lot of them and they were very popular. And where saloons often prohibited women, they were encouraged at speakeasies because of the added profits.
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