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Originally posted by diergray
AOnly 14% of the homes in the US had a BATHTUB.
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People didn't start bathing every day until WWII.
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A three-minute call from Denver to New York City cost $11.
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To put this in perspective, this was roughly a month's rent on a small house at the time.
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There were only 8,000 CARS in the US and only 144 miles of paved ROADS.
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So they didn't
need the paved roads... yet.
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The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.
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How fast does
your horse go??
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The average wage in the US was $0.22/hour.
The average US worker made between $200-$400/year.
A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000/year,
a dentist $2,500/year, a veterinarian between $1,500-$4,000/year,
and a mechanical engineer about $5,000/year.
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Note what I said about rent.
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attended medical schools, many of which were condemned in the press
and by the government as "substandard."
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The term "yellow journalism" was
coined in that era. OTOH, while we don't use the term much these days, it's mostly because they ALL do it now.
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The five leading causes of death in the US were: 1. Pneumonia
&influenza 2. Tuberculosis 3. Diarrhea 4. Heart disease 5. Stroke
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I'm not sure how much this has really changed. It's all "natural causes" now. I suspectt #3 is not as much of a problem now that we know about germs, and most people understand it.
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One in ten US adults couldn't read or write.
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I suspect it's worse now.
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Only 6% of all Americans had graduated from HIGH SCHOOL.
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Their idea of "high school" was more like what we think of as the first two or three years of college, these days.