{"id":2477,"date":"2020-10-04T06:39:14","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T11:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/?p=2477"},"modified":"2020-10-04T06:44:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T11:44:25","slug":"life-in-1902","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/life-in-1902\/","title":{"rendered":"LIFE in 1902"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

What life was like in 1902 <\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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118 years ago, the year was 1902 – what a difference a century makes.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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U.S. STATISTICS for 1902<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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The average life expectancy in the US was forty-seven (47).<\/span>
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Only 14 Percent of the homes in the US had a bathtub.<\/span>
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Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.\u00a0 A three-minute call from Denver to New York City cost eleven dollars.<\/span>
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There were only 8,000 cars in the US and only 144 miles of paved roads.<\/span>
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The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.<\/span>
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Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more heavily populated than California.<\/span>
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With a mere 1.4 million residents, California was only the 21st most populous state in the Union.<\/span>
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The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower.<\/span>
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The average wage in the US was 22 cents an hour.<\/span><\/p>\n

The average US worker made between $200 and $400 per year.<\/span>
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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.<\/span>
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More than 95 percent of all births in the US took place at home.<\/span>
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Ninety percent of all US physicians had no college education. Instead, they attended medical schools, many of which were condemned in the press and by the government as “substandard.”<\/span>
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Sugar cost four cents a pound.\u00a0 Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen.<\/span>
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Coffee cost fifteen cents a pound.<\/span>
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Most women only washed their hair once a month and used borax or egg yolks for shampoo.<\/span>
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Canada passed a law prohibiting poor people from entering the country for any reason.<\/span>
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The five leading causes of death in the US were:<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1.\u00a0 Pneumonia and influenza<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2.\u00a0 Tuberculosis<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3.\u00a0 Diarrhea<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4.\u00a0 Heart disease<\/span><\/p>\n

The American flag had 45 stars.\u00a0 Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii and Alaska hadn’t been admitted to the Union yet.<\/span>
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The population of Las Vegas, Nevada was 30.<\/span>
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Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced tea hadn’t been invented.<\/span>
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There were no Mother’s Day or Father’s Day.<\/span>
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One in ten US adults couldn’t read or write.\u00a0 Only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school.<\/span>
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Eighteen percent of households in the US had at least one full-time\u00a0 servant or domestic.<\/span>
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There were only about 230 reported murders in the entire US.<\/span>
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What life was like in 1902 118 years ago, the year was 1902 – what a difference a century makes. U.S. STATISTICS for 1902 \u00a0 The average life expectancy in the US was forty-seven (47). \u00a0 Only 14 Percent of the homes in the US had a bathtub. \u00a0 Only 8 percent of the homes Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-gutenberg.php","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"full","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"MaryCarol","author_link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/author\/marycarol\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Uncategorized<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Uncategorized<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 6 years ago","modified":"Updated 6 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on October 4, 2020","modified":"Updated on October 4, 2020"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on October 4, 2020 6:39 am","modified":"Updated on October 4, 2020 6:44 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2477"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2481,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions\/2481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}