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Bernice Downey 1904 - 1978

Bernice Downey of Joplin, Jasper County, Missouri was born on August 29, 1904, and died at age 73 years old in July 1978.

Bernice Downey

Joplin, Jasper County, Missouri 64801

August 29, 1904

July 1978

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August 29, 1904

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In 1904, in the year that Bernice Downey 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 1918, by the time she was merely 14 years old, following European countries, Daylight Saving Time went into effect in the United States in March. It was an effort to conserve fuel needed to produce electric power. This was a war effort and proved unpopular so in most areas of the United States, Daylight Saving Time ended after World War I. It returned during World War II.

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