Life in America 100 years ago

What was the life expectancy?

47 years old

What percentage of Americans had bathtubs in their homes?

14 Percent

What percentage of Americans had a telephone in their home?

8 percent

There were only 8,000 cars in the United States and only 144 miles of paved roads

What was the maximum speed limit in most cities?

10 miles per hour

Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa and Tennessee were each more heavily populated than California.

The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower.

What did the average worker make per hour in the U.S.?

22 cents

What did the average U.S. worker make in a year?

Between $200-400 a year.

What percentage of births took place in the home?

95 percent

What percentage of physicians had no college education?

90 percent

Most women washed their hair once a month, and used borax or egg yolks for shampoo.

Five leading causes of death: 1. Pneumonia 2. Tuberculosis 3. Diarrhea 4. Heart Disease 5. Stroke

What was the population of Las Vegas?

30 people

Only one in ten U. S. adults could read or write… Only one in ten U.S. adults could read or write….only 6 percent of Americans had graduated high school.

Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at corner drugstores. Many used heroin to treat acne, regulate the bowels, and thought it was a perfect guardian of health!

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