Turn the calendar back to 1905
 

Turn the Clock back to The Year 1905:


THE YEAR 1905
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 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 U.S. wage in 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.

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 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 posted this from someone else without typing it myself, and sent it to you in a matter of seconds!

Try to imagine what it may be like in another 100 years.

It staggers the mind.

Nice post. :)

and the person who wrote this sucks at math....

interesting info though. :thumbsup

Thats crazy, but interesting! :)

Amazing. I couldn't imagine living back then. But they will say the same thing about our time in 100 years.

Ah, I remember it well..........

I'd just love to live to see what we'll have in another 100 years.

Change will probably be even more dramatic than in thes last 100.

I always enjoy these kind of posts :) good one!

yeah me too - love reading stuff like that. i used to enjoy Paul Harvey's radio whatever it was he did - it was similar to this.

interesting that cancer wasn't even barely recognized - with the age of mortality that young other illnesses got people before the ages most cancers develop - and even when the cause of death was cancer medicine back then couldn't diagnose it so deaths would be attributed to other illnesses.

what's happened to California is pretty amazing - even in the 40's and 50's it was still largely rural and agricultural - it boomed after the soldiers came back from WW II.

Some interesting stuff there. Things are changing faster and faster...I often contemplate what the world will be like in years to come. In some ways it's pretty exciting!

Yep ... in 100 years from now we'll probably never get out of our homes

great post I love stuff like this

I tried washing my hair with egg yolks once as a teen - it used to say it in all the beauty books. The problem was I guess the water I washed my hair with was too hot and I ended up with scrambled egg in my hair.

1905:Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.
Present time: 100% telephone conversations wiretapped by BUSH

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA best law ever!

Probably about that much NOW in Canada ;)

Those are some interesting stats.

Man people must have stunk back then

Things have come a long way in the past 100 years. Thank goodness for the improvements in standards of living.

we've come a long way, baby.

Most women only washed their hair once a month, and used borax or egg yolks for shampoo.

--Oh my, now I wonder how was it's smell then.

Very nice post man, that shit makes you think what will happen in the next 100 years for sure.

Nice post but you're 15 days late.

Dying sucks, and the dead don't care. But fuck, that's just got to suck to out with a bad case of diarrhea. I think this now replaces drowning or burning to death on my 'most fearfull death' list. That shit (literally) is embarrassing.