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Some interesting facts and how things have changed and not always for
the better.
Subject: Century Old Facts
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| The year is 1901 - one hundred years ago ...
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| The average life expectancy in the US was forty-seven.
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| Only fourteen percent of the homes in the US had a bathtub.
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| Only eight percent of the homes had a telephone. A three minute call
| from Denver to New York City cost eleven dollars.
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| There were only eight thousand cars in the US and only one hundred
| and forty-four miles of paved roads.
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| The maximum speed limit in most cities was ten miles per hour.
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| 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.
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| The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower.
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| The average wage in the US was twenty-two cents an hour.
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| The average US worker made between $200.00 and $400.00 per year.
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| A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000.00 per year, a
| dentist $2,500.00 per year, a veterinarian between $1,500.00 and
| $4,000.00 per year and a mechanical engineer about $5,000.00 per
year.
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| More the ninety-five percent of all births in the US took place at
home.
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| Ninety percent of all US physicians had no college education.
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| Instead, they attended medical schools, many of which were condemned
| in the press and by the government as "substandard."
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| Sugar cost four cents a pound. Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen.
| Coffee cost fifteen cents a pound.
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| Most women only washed their hair once a month and used borax or
| egg yolks for shampoo.
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| Canada passed a law prohibiting poor people from entering the country
| for any reason.
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| The five leading causes of death in the US were:
| 1. Pneumonia and influenza 2. Tuberculosis
| 3. Diarrhea 4. Heart disease 5. Stroke.
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| The American flag had forty-five stars. As yet, Arizona, Oklahoma,
New
| Mexico, Hawaii and Alaska hadn't been admitted to the Union.
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| The population of Las Vegas, Nevada was thirty.
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| Crossword puzzles, canned beer and iced tea hadn't been invented.
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| There were no Mother's Day or Father's Day.
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| One in ten US adults couldn't read or write. Only six percent of all
| Americans had graduated from high school.
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| Citizens could buy and own machine guns or any weapon they could
afford.
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| 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."
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| Eighteen percent of households in the US had at least one full-time
| servant or domestic.
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| There were about two hundred and thirty reported murders in the US.
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