Posted on 12/16/2002 5:13:50 PM PST by 1redshirt
YEAR OF 1902
This ought to boggle your mind, I know it did mine!
The year is 1902 , one hundred years ago ... what a difference a century makes. Here are the U.S. statistics for 1902....
The average life expectancy in the US was forty-seven (47).
Only 14 Percent of the homes in the US 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 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 21st most populous state in the Union.
The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower.
The average wage in the US was 22 cents an hour.
The average US 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 US took place at home.
Ninety percent of all US 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.
The five leading causes of death in the US 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 were no Mother's Day or Father's Day.
One in ten US adults couldn't read or write.
Only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from 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 the bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health."
Eighteen percent of households in the US had at least one full-time servant or domestic.
There were only about 230 reported murders in the entire US.
Just think what it will be like in another 100 years. It boggles the mind...........
I believe Hillary Clinton has been following this regime for several years now.... Proof positive - history does repeat itself.....
That's true in many public schools today in 2002.
Kind of hard to wrap my head around that. Will the speed limit be 900 mph? Will women shampoo every hour? Will every family have 16 telephones?
Changes will come, but what they'll be is harder to say. Maybe we'll all have a small box that contains more information than we will ever know. ... Come to think of it we have those already. Maybe people will be so genetically engineered with so many new capacities that they will cease to be human.
Maybe we will have so much knowledge that we will finally be wise. Or maybe we'll be permanently hooked up to some gigantic fantasy machine that lets us do everything we can't do in the real world.
AND NO GUN CONTROL. Imagine that...
Looks like the Dems are trying to take us back to the good old days.
Gee, and I have to get buy on "electronic servants" (my computer, dishwasher, microwave and so on).
I feel deprived.
According to the US Census in 1990 the population was 248,709,873, in 2001 it was 281,421,906. So if we increase the population by 32,712,033 every 10 years the population will be 608,542,236. Of course this does not include all the illegal immigrants that will enter the country. I suspect living conditions will be somewhat akin to the way it is in China.
It's not a gun/drug problem, it's a spiritual problem.
Probably closer to 4 in ten can't read and write today.
Er, at least well enough to fill out an application for a job.
Back then, people who completed the eighth grade were as educated as someone graduating from either a very good high school or having spent two years in junior college.
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