It Staggers The Mind

Now mind you, this is something THEY TELL ME ABOUT,   But it's really interesting.  Some of these things my Granparents told me about when I was a kid.  As old as I am (& sometimes feel) HONESLY, TRULY I  wasn't here in 1905!  LOL
Love Merry > 1905
> Turn the Clock back 100 hears to =

 THE YEAR 1905
>
> The year is 1905. One hundred years ago!?
> What a difference a century makes!
> Here are some of the U.S. statistics for the Year 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. (Wish they still were.)
> 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
> $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. doctors had no college education.
> Instead, they attended so-called 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 that prohibited poor people from entering into
> their country for any reason. (And we Canadians think we're so nice 
> That must be why we got all those remittance men, rotten bounders from
> wealthy families who didn't want any more to do with them.)
> Five leading causes of death in the U.S. were:

>  1. Pneumonia and Influenza
> 2. Tuberculosis
>  3 .Diarrhea (big killer of babies)
>  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 iced 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. (Not sure we
> have improved on this one.)
> 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 pharmacist said, "Heroin
> clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the
> stomach and bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health."?
> (Shocking!)
> Eighteen percent of households in the U.S. had at least one full-time
> servant or domestic help.
> There were about 230 reported murders in the entire U.S.
> And I forwarded

>  this from someone else without typing it out myself and sent it to
> you in a matter of seconds!  Imagine what it may be like in another
> 100 years.  It staggers the mind.