This nostalgic view of 1908 (edited) was sent to me in an e-mail chain, and I'm sure many people have already seen it. I have not checked the veracity of the statistics, but they sound reasonable to me. The question one must ask after reading it is: would you like to go back?
What a difference a century makes.
Here are some statistics for the year 1908:
The average life expectancy was 47 years.
Only 14 percent of homes had a bathtub.
Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.
The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower.
The average 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 took place at home.
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 to prohibit poor people from entering their country for any reason.
Five leading causes of death were:
1. Pneumonia and influenza
2. Tuberculosis
3. Diarrhea
4. Heart disease
5. Stroke
The population of Las Vegas, Nevada, was 30.
There were only 8,000 cars and only 144 miles of paved roads.
Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced tea hadn’t been invented yet.
Only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school.
Eighteen percent of households had at least one full-time domestic helper.
There were about 230 reported murders in the U.S.A.
I have copied and pasted this from another document, posted it to my blog, where it can be read by others all over the world, and I did it in a matter of seconds.
Imagine what it may be like in another 100 years.
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