Who remembers the the year 1904?

100 Years
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THE YEAR 1904

Maybe this will boggle your mind, I know it did mine!

The year is 1904, one hundred years ago.
What a difference a century makes!

Here are some of the U.S. statistics for 1904:

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 residents, 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 an 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. physicians had no college education.
Instead, they attended medical schools, many of which were
condemned in the press and by 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 prohibiting poor people from entering the
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 30.

Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced tea hadn't been
invented.

There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.

Two of 10 U.S. adults couldn't read or write.

Only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated high school.

Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the
counter at corner drugstores.

According to one pharmacist, "Heroin clears the complexion,
gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach and bowels,
and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health."

Eighteen percent of households in the U.S had at least one full-
time servant or domestic.

There were only about 230 reported murders in the entire U.S.



And I forwarded this from someone else without typing it myself,
and sent it to you in a matter of seconds!
Try to imagine what it may be like in another 100 years ....
it staggers the mind.

...Wow...this was fascinating reading...I guess we have come a long way in most areas...the education statistics really stood out for me...also, I had absolutely no idea that heroin was once an over the counter drug...how scary is that ?...geez...thanks for posting this...it was very, very interesting

My mom's dad was just a year old on June 28, 1904, and he died on June 3, 2003, just about 3 weeks before turning 100! Oh, shoot, if he had only lasted alive for just a few more weeks, we'd have had a centenarian in our family in this life!

only if i myself could be here in this world one hundred years more i would know what all my children and grandchildren and so on would be like we are all living in the best time to be living in i do believe i love life and wish all the same

My grandfather was born in 1904