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The Year 1905'
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Posted by: LadyLS1

YEAR 1905

Maybe this will boggle your mind, I know it did mine! The year is 1905, one hundred years ago.

What a difference a century makes!

Here are some of the U.S. statistics for 1905:

The average life expectancy in the U.S. was 47 years.

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 residents, 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 an 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 $2,500 per year, a veterinarian between $1,500 and $4,000 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. physicians had no college education.

Instead, they attended medical schools, many of which were condemned in the press and by the government as "substandard."

Sugar cost four cents a pound.

Eggs were fourteen 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 prohibiting poor people from entering the country for any reason.

The 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 30!!!

Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced tea hadn't been invented.

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

Two of 10 U.S. adults couldn't read or write.

Only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated high school.

Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at corner drugstores.
According to one pharmacist, "Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach and bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health."

Eighteen percent of households in the U.S had at least one full-time servant or domestic.

There were only about 230 reported murders in the entire U.S.
Try to imagine what it may be like in another 100 years...it staggers the mind.

Posted by: No Rice Allowed

Amazing isn't it...?

Posted by: Mr. P

My one Grandfather was born in 1900, he's been gone for over 20 years now, but I have a living Grandmother who was born in 1911, now 94 years old and I visited with her three days last week. She's a hoot, and still sharp as a tack mentally, but not able to see very well. With all the advances in technology, including jet aircraft travel, nuclear power, walking on the moon, cell phones, medicine, etc., we need to remember there are people out there who have witnessed many of these events. Just think what life was like in 1917 when my Grandmother was six years old and we were at war for three years already in WW-I. She's seen so much!

Like you said, it boggles the mind to think about what the world will be like in another hundred years. If you want a peek, check this out, just one more "medical advance" that might be applied to humans in the future

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,1011...2-13762,00.html

Posted by: Carpet_Liquer

Quote:


	There were only about 230 reported murders in the entire U.S.

Thats about how many there was in Canada last year.

Posted by: skeezix

Actually Capet it was 582 in 2002.

So, doing the math(murders/population);

(canada)
582/30,000,000 = .00002%

(u.s.)
16,203/300,000,000 = .00005%

Not off by much.

Posted by: LS1JAY

Wow... those are some crazy numbers!

Posted by: 19Jeff99

There were only about 230 reported murders in the entire U.S.

If only we could get back to that someday in the future.

Posted by: No Rice Allowed

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Originally Posted by Mr. P


	Like you said, it boggles the mind to think about what the world will be like in another hundred years. If you want a peek, check this out, just one more "medical advance" that might be applied to humans in the future http://www.news.com.au/story/0,1011...2-13762,00.html

Man, that is awesome!!

Posted by: Markus

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lavender


	Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at corner drugstores. According to one pharmacist, "Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach and bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health."

Sigh* the good old days

Posted by: No Rice Allowed

Quote:

Originally Posted by Markus


	Sigh the good old days*

Yeah the average of life expectancy, was 47?? Some good ol' days....

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