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Velma Young 1905 - 1976

Velma Young of Wrightsville, York County, PA was born on September 12, 1905, and died at age 71 years old in November 1976.
Velma Young
Wrightsville, York County, PA 17368
September 12, 1905
November 1976
Female
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    1905

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    September 12, 1905
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  • 11/dd
    1976

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    November 1976
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    Velma Young lived 1 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 71.
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In 1905, in the year that Velma Young was born, the first movie theater opened in the United States in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was the first theater to show nothing but movies - silent films. Two men, John P. Harris and his brother-in-law Harry Davis, opened the Nickelodeon on Smithfield Street - charging 5 cents for admission. The first day, 450 people watched movies at the new theater - on the second day, more than 1500 people stood in line to get in.
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In 1920, Velma was merely 15 years old when on January 1, over 6000 people were arrested and put in prison because they were suspected of being communists. . Many had to be released in a few weeks and only 3 guns were found in their homes. The U.S. Department of Justice "red hunt" netted thousands of "radicals" and suspected "communists" and aliens were deported. But the "hunt" ended after Attorney General Palmer forecast a massive radical uprising on May Day and the day passed without incident.
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