What's Changed Since 1906 and 2006

This will boggle your mind,

I know it did mine !

The year is 1906.

One hundred years ago.

What a difference a century makes !

Here are some of the U.S. statistics for the Year 1906

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The average life expectancy in the U.S. was 47

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.

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 wage in the US. was 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 the government as "sub-standard."

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. (EE-EWW)

Canada passed a law that prohibited poor people from entering into their country for any reason.

The 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 ice 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.

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. 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 ? )

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.A. !

Now I forwarded this from someone else without typing it myself, and sent it to you and others all over the United States, possibly the world, in a matter of seconds !

Now having read this try to imagine what it may be like in another 100 years.


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The 20th century was the most important in human history for sure. So many important events and people it boggles the mind. But what will come in the 21st? Scary thought, lol.

My grandma ( mom's mom) was born in 1897.
She was born in a wooden frame home on a farm in Indiana.

Just think, in her lifetime, she went from kerosense lamps to fully lit homes, outhouses to hot and cold running water and then to sunken tubs, et al; horse and buggies to jet airliners.

You're not kidding, it's a scary thought, but also an exciting thought. Giirls back then rarely finished thru the 8 th grade ( grandma had a Masters Degree in Classical Studies tho--her dad was enlightened and believed in educating women), at least one-fourth of kids never made it past age 5, farmers were at the whim of the elements as far as their crops and livelihood were concerned; and Grandma was 18 before she'd even been out of her own county. At big family dinners, she'd listen to kinfolk talk about seeing and voting for Abe Lincoln and serving in the Civil War!

We'll have equally astounding tales to tell our own grandkids.

I can't wait to get old and complain to the younglings in my neighborhood.

"Back in mah day I had to surf the intanet frum mah deshk!!"

My mother was born in 1900 and died in 1984. She lived to see the most significant inventions in the 20th century. These were perhaps:
Automobiles (very late 19th anyway)
Radio
TV
Air travel
Computers
The most significant discovery was perhaps DNA etc.

What new inventions and discoveries will we see in this century?
I speculate that science will learn many new things about the human immune and nervous systems.
Physicists will resolve the energy/matter/time/space string theories. (And be proven wrong in the 22nd century)
New "science fiction" sources of energy will be developed.

Id say by 2106 the stats for 1906 will be very impressive the way we're going.

with computers advancing the way they are and technology advancing exponentially, we may be sending manned trips to the moons of Jupiter by the end of the century.