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Subject: 100 Years ago
>
>
>
> >  100 YEARS AGO
> >  It May Be Hard to Believe
> >
>
> >  From a book called WHEN MY GRANDMOTHER WAS A CHILD
> >  by Leigh W. Rutledge, which begins,
>    "In the summer of 1900, when my grandmother was a child..."
>
>
> >  The average life expectancy in the United States was forty-seven.
> >
> >  Only 14 percent of the homes in the United States 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 US and only 144 miles of paved
> roads.
> >
> >  The maximum speed limit in most cities was ten mph.
> >
> >  Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more heavily
> >  populated than California. With a mere 1.4 million residents,
> >  California was only the twenty-first most populous state in the
> Union.
> >
> >  The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower.
> >
> >  The average wage in the U.S. was twenty-two 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
>
> >  $2500 per year, a veterinarian between $1500 and $4000 per year, and
> a
> >  mechanical engineer about $5000 per year.
> >
> >  More than 95 percent of all births in the United States 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 cost 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, either as travelers or immigrants.
> >
> >  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.
> >
> >  Drive-by-shootings -- in which teenage boys galloped down the street
> >  on horses and started randomly shooting at houses, carriages, or
> >  anything else that caught their fancy -- were an ongoing problem in
> >  Denver and other cities in the West.
> >
> >  The population of Las Vegas, Nevada was thirty. The remote desert
> >  community was inhabited by only a handful of ranchers and their
> >  families.
> >
> >  Plutonium, insulin, and antibiotics hadn't been discovered yet.
> Scotch
> >  tape, crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced tea hadn't been
> >  invented.
> >
> >  There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.
> >
> >  One in ten U.S. adults couldn't read or write. Only 6 percent of all
> >  Americans had graduated from high school.
> >
> >  Some medical authorities warned that professional seamstresses were
> >  apt to become sexually aroused by the steady rhythm, hour after
>hour,
>
> >  of the sewing machine's foot pedals. They recommended slipping
> >  bromide -- which was thought to diminish sexual desire -- into the
> >  woman's drinking water.
> >
> >  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
>the
>
> >  bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health.
> >
> >  Coca-Cola contained cocaine instead of caffeine.
> >
> >  Punch card data processing had recently been developed, and early
> >  predecessors of the modern computer were used for the first time by
> >  the government to help compile the 1900 census.
> >
> >  Eighteen percent of households in the United States had at least one
> >  full-time servant or domestic.
> >
> >  There were about 230 reported murders in the U.S. annually. >>
>  >>
>

Curtis L. Clark
Library Media Specialist
Sherwood MD/SR. High School
P.O. Box 98
Hwy 7, Outer Rd
Creighton, MO 64739
660 499 2230
660 499 2258 (FAX)
sva006@mail.connect.more.net


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