One Hundred Years Ago in America

[Grant]

The year is 1909.
One hundred years ago.
What a difference a century makes!
Here are some statistics for the Year 1909 :

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The average life expectancy was 47 years.

The new Ford automobile....fuel for this car was sold in drug stores only


Only 14 percent of the homes had a bathtub.


Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.


There were only 8,000 cars and only 144 miles

Of paved roads.


The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.


The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower!


The average wage in 1909 was 22 cents per hour.


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 .


Ninety percent of all doctors had NO COLLEGE EDUCATION!

Instead, they attended so-called medical schools, many of which

Were condemned in the press AND 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 were:

1. Pneumonia and influenza
2. Tuberculosis
3. Diarrhea
4. Heart disease
5. Stroke


The American flag had 45 stars....


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 adults couldn't read or write and

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 pharmacists 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? DUH! )


Eighteen percent of households had at least one full-time servant or
domestic help..


There were about 230 reported murders in the ENTIRE ! U.S.A.!

Plus one more sad thought; 95 percent of the taxes we have now did not exist
in 1909

[Babygirl-]

Somalia is at that stage.. 1 century behind.

[Basra-]

.... and were u born this day?


I would like to have been born in 1880 in england, i would have been 29 yrs old in 1909! How lovely the victorian days were in england huh?

[SummerRain]

Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at the
local corner drugstores. Back then pharmacists said, 'Heroin clears the
complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind,regulates the stomach and bowels, and
is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health'

wtf

[Advo]

I like the doctors in 1909

[Meles]

America owes it's civilization to Ashekenazi immigration in the 19th century

[Babygirl-]

Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at the
local corner drugstores. Back then pharmacists said, 'Heroin clears the
complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind,regulates the stomach and bowels, and
is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health'

wtf

It was like that until the 1920s i think..

[MrPrestige]

Basra the victorians would properly inslaved you and make you a black house maid back in the 1880.

[Basra-]

Ducaysane209 »

I dont mean-- be born with my marine color self. I mean, been born an aristocratic white woman with pale white skin and small aristocratic hands.

[Babygirl-]

Basra the victorians would properly inslaved you and make you a black house maid back in the 1880.

Basraaaa!! you Fat, good for nothing, burnt African Pig, do your job NOW!!!

*Bitch slapped* YES MASSA

[SummerRain]

Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at the
local corner drugstores. Back then pharmacists said, 'Heroin clears the
complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind,regulates the stomach and bowels, and
is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health'

wtf

It was like that until the 1920s i think..

Offcourse you'll know, Cajuuso.

[Babygirl-]

I was only 20 a Refugee from Africa.

[Basra-]

Baby please! somali genes r not built for shaqaloniimo! U think the white did not sail to somalia to try to steal somalis for slavery? they saw our graceful cocasioan faces, our eagle noses, lazy walks, our habbits of resting hand on our heeps, male and female, and sailed away to the opposite african continental- until they landed in ghana and nigeria-and saw those wonderful ape mascular form on a human--and they all bow down their heads in jesus praise! Jackpot they cried! helelluya!

[Dhaga Bacayl]

Eighteen percent of households had at least one full-time servant or
domestic help..

The correct term is "SLAVES"

[Grant]

The slaves were freed in 1865. Some Jim Crow and Aunt Jemima after that, but they weren't slaves. The "help" in most US areas in the Twentieth Century was Irish and southern European, followed or preceeded in some areas by Chinese and Latin Americans.

There are millionairs from all groups now.