moostraks
05-23-2010, 12:48 PM
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
Facts for THE YEAR 1909 will boggle your mind. I know it did mine! What a difference a century makes!
1. The average life expectancy was 47 years. Fuel for cars was sold in drug stores only. Only 14 percent of the homes had a bathtub. Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone. There were only 8,000 cars and only 144 miles of paved roads. The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph. The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower!
2. The average wage in 1909 was 22 cents per hour. The average worker made between $200 and $400 per year.
3. 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.
4. More than 95 percent of all births took place at HOME.
5. Ninety percent of all 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’.
6. Sugar cost four cents a pound. Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen. Coffee was fifteen cents a pound.
7. Most women only washed their hair once a month, and used borax or egg yolks for shampoo.
8. Canada passed a law that prohibited poor people from entering into their country for any reason.
9. Five leading causes of death were: 1Pneumonia and influenza 2Tuberculosis 3Diarreha 4Heart disease 5Stroke.
10. The population of Las Vegas, Nevada, was only 30!!!!
11. Crossword puzzles, canned drinks and iced tea hadn't been invented yet.
12. There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.
13. Two out of every 10 adults couldn't read or write and only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school.
14. Eighteen percent of households had at least one full-time servant or domestic help.
15. There were about 230 reported murders in the ENTIRE U.S.A.!
ONE LAST SAD THOUGHT: 95 percent of the taxes we have now did not exist in 1909. Try to imagine what it may be like in another 100 years. [Fwd>SS]
LEGAL MATTERS
We need more lawyers like good old Honest Abe. “It's said that Abraham Lincoln once sized up the case of a prospective client as follows: ‘You have a good case, technically, but in terms of justice and equity, it's got problems. So you'll have to look for another lawyer to handle the case, because the whole time I'd be up there talking to the jury, I'd be thinking, 'Lincoln, you're a liar!' and I might just forget myself and say it out loud.’" [FromAC]
From:Cahrlie's Comments and Chuckles
http://charliescc.blogspot.com/
Facts for THE YEAR 1909 will boggle your mind. I know it did mine! What a difference a century makes!
1. The average life expectancy was 47 years. Fuel for cars was sold in drug stores only. Only 14 percent of the homes had a bathtub. Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone. There were only 8,000 cars and only 144 miles of paved roads. The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph. The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower!
2. The average wage in 1909 was 22 cents per hour. The average worker made between $200 and $400 per year.
3. 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.
4. More than 95 percent of all births took place at HOME.
5. Ninety percent of all 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’.
6. Sugar cost four cents a pound. Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen. Coffee was fifteen cents a pound.
7. Most women only washed their hair once a month, and used borax or egg yolks for shampoo.
8. Canada passed a law that prohibited poor people from entering into their country for any reason.
9. Five leading causes of death were: 1Pneumonia and influenza 2Tuberculosis 3Diarreha 4Heart disease 5Stroke.
10. The population of Las Vegas, Nevada, was only 30!!!!
11. Crossword puzzles, canned drinks and iced tea hadn't been invented yet.
12. There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.
13. Two out of every 10 adults couldn't read or write and only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school.
14. Eighteen percent of households had at least one full-time servant or domestic help.
15. There were about 230 reported murders in the ENTIRE U.S.A.!
ONE LAST SAD THOUGHT: 95 percent of the taxes we have now did not exist in 1909. Try to imagine what it may be like in another 100 years. [Fwd>SS]
LEGAL MATTERS
We need more lawyers like good old Honest Abe. “It's said that Abraham Lincoln once sized up the case of a prospective client as follows: ‘You have a good case, technically, but in terms of justice and equity, it's got problems. So you'll have to look for another lawyer to handle the case, because the whole time I'd be up there talking to the jury, I'd be thinking, 'Lincoln, you're a liar!' and I might just forget myself and say it out loud.’" [FromAC]
From:Cahrlie's Comments and Chuckles
http://charliescc.blogspot.com/