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USA
1906!
1906 San
Francisco Earthquake and Fire
5:12 AM April 18, 1906
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Deaths: > 3,000
- Injuries: ~225,000
- Property Damage: $ 400,000,000 in 1906 $$$
--FAQ @UC Berkeley
Seismographic Station
Show
this
to your children
and
grandchildren
??
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 of the U.S.
statistics for the
Year
1906
:
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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.
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 U.S.
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 "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 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.
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 and Canada,
possibly the world, in a matter of seconds!
Try
to imagine what it may be like in another 100 years.
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