1. What Our World Was Like 100 Years Ago By Mrs. Hughes First Grade

2. What Was School like 100 Years Ago? A class at the turn of the century.

3. RULES FOR TEACHERS 100 YEARS AGO To wear at least two petticoats. Never to wear dresses that were more than two inches above her ankles. To wear dark-colored clothes. Never to dye her hair. Never to get married. To start a fire in the schoolhouse every morning so the room would be warm when the children arrived.

4. A Teacher In 1907

5. Life as a Student Years Ago Interesting Facts: All children walked to school, some of them three miles or more along formed grass tracks or gravel roads. There was NO Scotch tape, crossword puzzles, crayons or iced tea. 1 in 10 adults in the U.S. couldn't read or write. 6% graduated from high school. 100

6. Boys Farming

7. What Did People Eat 100 Years Ago? If you wanted to eat bacon 100 years ago you had to …

8. 100 Years Ago…. Bathing Beauties

9. Transportation

10. 1907 Motorcycle

12. In 1904, the first flight lasting more than five minutes took place on November 9. The Flyer II was flown by Wilbur Wright. In 1909, the U.S. Government bought its first airplane, a Wright Brothers biplane, on July 30. The airplane sold for $25,000 plus a bonus of $5,000 because it exceeded 40 mph.

13. Locomotive

14. The Fire Department in 1907

15. A 1907 Fire Truck

16. Entertainment 100 years ago…

17. A Flapper

18. Baseball In 1907

19. City Life

20. A Telephone

21. A Record Player 100 Years Ago

23. A whole lot of people literally had a Saturday night bath in a washtub -- a tin tub with water hauled in and water hauled out. Everybody washed in the same water with boiling water added from time to time to keep it usable.

25. This was a washing machine 100 Years Ago.

26. The United States 100 Years Ago... Here are the U.S. statistics for 1902.... There were no Mother's Day or Father's Day. The American flag had 45 stars. Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii and Alaska hadn't been admitted to the Union yet. Most women only washed their hair once a month and used borax or egg yolks for shampoo. The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower. The average life expectancy in the US was forty-seven (47).

27. . Albert Einstein is one of the most recognized and well-known scientists of the century.

28. orn orn On May 26,1907, John Wayne, an actor, was born in Iowa.

29. The End