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11 years 9 months ago #17815 by OleCowboy
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The year is 1910, over one hundred years ago.
What a difference a century makes!
Here are some statistics for the Year 1910:

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The average life expectancy for men was 47 years.
Fuel for this car was sold in drug stores only.
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 US wage in 1910 was 22 cents per hour.
The average US 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 Physicians 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.
The 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 iced 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 and only 6 percent of
all Americans had graduated from high school.
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. (but almost everyone had a gun!)

I am now going to forward this to someone else without typing it myself.

From there, it will be sent to others all over the WORLD...
all in a matter of seconds!

Try to imagine what it may be like in another 100 years.

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11 years 9 months ago #17820 by 13fcolt
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I like the one that compared being deployed to cities of the same population. It compared all deaths along the same timeline to 10 or 12 US cities and found you were safer in IRAQ. Everybody had at least a machine gun there. Now what does that tell ya?

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11 years 9 months ago #17822 by OleCowboy
Replied by OleCowboy on topic Stats

13fcolt wrote: I like the one that compared being deployed to cities of the same population. It compared all deaths along the same timeline to 10 or 12 US cities and found you were safer in IRAQ. Everybody had at least a machine gun there. Now what does that tell ya?

Can you imagine what America would be like if Obama, FineTune, Reid, Schumer etc get their way and confiscate 90% of all firearms from legal, law abiding citizens? America would be a free for all by criminals. Robberies, murders would be daily across the US.

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