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From: FMamatroll@aol.com
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Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 09:48:46 EDT
Subject: A CENTURY AGO
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Subject: 100 Years Ago. . .
>
>. . . It May Be Hard to Believe
>
>The average life expectancy in the United States was 47.
>
>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 $11.
>
>There were only 8,000 cars in the US 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 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 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
>$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 10 U.S. adults couldn't read or write. Only 6 percent of all
>Americans had graduated from high school.
>
>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.
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