What a Difference a Century Makes!
- The average life expectancy in the U.S. was 47 years.
- 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.
- Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more heavily populated than California.
- The average wage in the U.S. was 22 cents an hour.
- 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."
- Most women only washed their hair once a month, and used borax or egg yolks for shampoo.
- The population of Las Vegas, Nevada, was 30.
- Only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated high school.
- Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at corner drugstores.
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