100 Years ago....What we take for granted! (1 Viewer)

Toejam

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THE YEAR
1907

This
will boggle your mind, I know it did mine!
The year
is 1907.
One hundred years ago.
What a difference a century makes!

Here are some of the U.S. Statistics for the Year 1907:

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The
average life expectancy in the U.S. Was 47 years
old.


Only 14
percent of the homes in the U.S. Had a bathtub.

Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.


A three-minute call
from Denver to New York City
Cost
eleven dollars.

There were only 8,000
cars in the U.S., and only 144 miles of paved roads.

The maximum speed
limit in most cities was 10 mph.

Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and
Tennessee were each more
Heavily
populated than California.

With a mere 1.4 million
people, California was only the 21st
Most
populous state in the Union.

The tallest structure
in the world was the Eiffel Tower!

The average wage in the
U.S. Was 22 Cents per
hour.

The average U.S. Worker made between $200 and $400 per year.


A competent accountant
could expect to earn $2000 per year,
A dentist made $2,500 per year,

A
veterinarian $1,500 per year,
And a
mechanical engineer about $5,000 per year.

More
than 95 percent of all births in the U.S. Took place at
HOME.

Ninety percent of all
U.S. Doctors had NO COLLEGE
EDUCATION!

Instead, they attended so-called medical schools, many of which

Were condemned in the press AND
the government as "substandard."

Sugar cost
four
cents a pound.


Eggs were
f
ourteen cents a dozen.

Coffee
was fifteen cents a
pound.

Most women only washed
their hair once a
month, and used

Borax or
egg yolks for shampoo.

Canada passed a law that prohibited poor people from

Entering into their
country for any reason.

Five
leading causes of death in the U.S. Were:
1. Pneumonia and influenza
2. Tuberculosis

3.
Diarrhea

4. Heart disease

5. Stroke


The
American flag had 45 stars.
Arizona,
Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii, and
Alaska hadn't been
admitted to the Union yet.

The population of Las Vegas, Nevada,
was only 30!!!!

Crossword puzzles,
canned beer, and ice tea
Hadn't been invented yet.

There was no Mother's
Day or Father's Day.

Two out of every 10 U.S. Adults couldn't read or
write.


Only 6
percent of all Americans had graduated from high school.


Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available
over
The counter at the local corner drugstores. Back then
pharmacists

Said,
"Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind,

Regulates the
stomach and bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian

Of
health."



There were
about 230 reported
Murders in the ENTIRE
U.S.A.!

Now I sent
it to you and others all over the United States,

Possibly
the world, in a matter of just Seconds !!!!!!!!!


PASS THIS
ALONG!!!!!

Just Try
to imagine.....

What it
may be like .

In another 100 years
!!!!!!!
 
In that same vein, I was the first person in my family born in a hospital. Both of my parents were born at home, and my grandfather thought it was a "waste of money" for me to be born in a hospital when I could be born at home just fine!!!! I was born in 1974!!!
 
Amazing statistics. The part about the Eiffel Tower reminded me of a book I read "Devil in the White City", non-fiction account of the building of the World's Columbian Exposition (i.e. World's Fair) in Chicago in 1893 and the serial killer that lived just a few blocks from the Fairgrounds. Anyway, what I found so amazing back then was how they could build the Ferris Wheel (and all the other structures for the Fair) which was built for the Fair to rival the Eiffel Tower (which was built for Paris' world fair in 1889). The original Ferris Wheel was 264' high and contained 21 passenger cars. Each car could carry 60 people so think of it as the approximate size of a school bus. There were no tower cranes back then like you see on high-rises today. The main spindle (or axle of the Wheel) weighed 140,000 pounds and was the largest casting of iron ever made in the U.S. to that point. How the heck did they get that up in the air 130 feet?
 
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