What a difference a century makes!!

[Mr. Poopypants]

Maybe this will boggle your mind, I know it did mine! The year is 1905 one hundred years ago. What a difference a century makes! Here are some of the U.S. statistics for 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. With a mere 1.4 million residents, 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 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 $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. 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 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 prohibiting poor people from entering the country for any reason. 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. The population of Las Vegas, Nevada, was 30!!! Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced tea hadn't been invented. There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day. Two of 10 U.S. adults couldn't read or write. Only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated high school. 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 bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health." Eighteen percent of households in the U.S had at least one full-time servant or domestic. There were only about 230 reported murders in the entire U.S.

[Sputnik]

Holy crap! Diarrhea the third leading cause of death!?

[Ponyota]

Quote, originally posted by Sputnik »Holy crap! Diarrhea the third leading cause of death!?Can you imagine what they must have been eating? lolIt's pretty cool to look back and see how much has changed over the years. My grandpa was born in 1903 and died in 1995. I was lucky enough to hear some of his old time stories and view some of his prized pictures from throughout his years. One that I thought was kinda funny when I was younger was that he fought with the US Army in WWI on a horse and carried a sword!

[drunkenmaxx]

can you imagine $h!tting to death???

[Mr. Poopypants]

Quote, originally posted by drunkenvibe »can you imagine $h!tting to death???After my night out Saturday night, I was close to it yesterday.

[tnpartsguy]

1. Pneumonia and influenza Actually was probably cancer, but was diagnosed as pneumonia or flu. Most cancer patients today actually die of pneumonia. Sorry about the morbid trivia, but both my parents died of cancer related pneumonia, due to lung cancer. There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.Probably because most kids respected their parents enough every day. (Either that or they got their bottoms tanned good!!)

[Kari]

Toooooooo much information...LOLActually it probably isn't "shitting to death"...but more or less being dehydrated. So you'd be dying from a side effect of the shitting, but not the act itself.

[drunkenmaxx]

wow! your post said "****ting" and it wasnt bleeped out!!

[silver_vibe]

Quote, originally posted by tnpartsguy » 1. Pneumonia and influenza Actually was probably cancer, but was diagnosed as pneumonia or flu. Most cancer patients today actually die of pneumonia. Sorry about the morbid trivia, but both my parents died of cancer related pneumonia, due to lung cancer. There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.Probably because most kids respected their parents enough every day. (Either that or they got their bottoms tanned good!!)I had the same thought: The pneumonia being a symptom of something else. My sister had leukemia and her main outward symptoms were prolonged fever and liquid in her lungs.

[Mr. Poopypants]

Quote, originally posted by drunkenvibe »wow! your post said "****ting" and it wasnt bleeped out!! How did that happen??