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09/01/18 Weekend Grif.Net – In 1900 (part 1)

09/01/18 Weekend Grif.Net – In 1900 (part 1)

[Facts from =
the book "When My Grandmother Was a Child" by Leigh W. =
Ruttledge, which begins, "In the summer of 1900, when my =
grandmother was a child…"]

 

*The average =
life expectancy in the United States was =
forty-seven.

 

*Only 14% of =
the homes in the United States had a bathtub.

 

*Only 8% of =
the homes had a telephone. A three minute call from Denver to New York =
City cost $11.00

 

*There were =
only 8,000 cars in the US and only 144 miles of paved =
roads.

 

*The maximum =
speed limit in most cities was ten 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 (more than twice the height =
of the Pyramids in Giza)

 

*The average =
wage in the US was twenty-two 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 $2500 per =
year, a veterinarian between $1500 and $4000 per year, and a mechanical =
engineer about $5000 per year.

 

*More than 95% =
of all births in the United States took place at =
home.

 

*Coca-Cola =
contained cocaine instead of caffeine.

 

*Punch-card =
data processing had recently been developed, and early predecessors of =
the modern computer were used for the first time by the government to =
help compile the 1900 census.

 

*18% of =
households in the United States had at least one full-time servant or =
domestic.

 

*There were =
about 230 reported murders in the entire U.S. annually. (Last year there =
were nearly 500 homicides in Chicago alone)

 

~~

Dr Bob Griffin =

[email protected] =
www.grif.net

"Jesus =
Knows Me, This I Love!"