?? THE YEAR 1906??

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 statistics for the Year 1906 :

The average life expectancy was 47 years.

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 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 ice 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.

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. !

Try to imagine what it may be like in another 100 years.
IT STAGGERS THE MIND, EH .?

I do not know who compiled this info as I recieved it as an e-mail, but it certainly is interesting.

Irish

That is mind boggling. I myself only make about a quarter an hour.....

Double post because the forum had that glitch yesterday.

So I should say something profound here.

Something profound here.

Wow thats crazy.

Diarrhea a leading cause of death!?

Back to Horse and cart i think with oil prices going up like they are.

It will be wierd 2106 shudders at the thought

That's crazy- I didn't know all that stuff was invented in the last 100 years. Seems we've come a long way, eh?

Yeah.
With no bathtubs, no phone to use to call for help, and no car to reach help, they must have died of their own stank in their forties.

Other things that happened in 1906:

-March 15 - Rolls-Royce Ltd. is registered.

-April 18 - 1906 San Francisco earthquake on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, California, killing at least 3000. 225,000-300,000 left homeless. $350 million in damages. The estimated magnitude of the earthquake is 7.8.

-July 12 - Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer hastily and wrongly convicted of treason in 1899, is exonerated. He is reinstalled in the French Army July 21, ending the "Dreyfus Affair" that exposed anti-Semitism in French society.

-September 24 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower the nation's first National Monument.

-October 11 - San Francisco public school board sparks United States diplomatic crisis with Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.

-November 9 - US President Theodore Roosevelt leaves for a trip to Panama to inspect the construction progress of the Panama Canal (this was the first time a sitting President of the United States made an official trip outside of the United States).

Births:
-February 10 - Lon Chaney, Jr., U.S. actor (d. 1973)

-April 28 - Kurt Gödel, logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (d. 1978)

Deaths:
-March 13 - Susan B. Anthony, American civil rights and women's suffrage activist (b. 1820)

-April 19 - Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)

-May 23 - Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (b. 1828)

... Maybe the world hasn`t changed that much on a hundred years.

from diseases like botulism, food posioning, etc.

Was that a dig at Americans????

nice man, good interesting facts.. haha ima show that to my frined.. 100 years is a long time though.. !!! thanks for showin me that.

Good old Canada; The true north strong and free.

I love Canada.