[Michael Goldsberry]

... canned beer, and ice tea hadn't been invented yet.

No can is required.

[areafiftyone]

Wow this is Interesting. Thank you for posting it!

[little jeremiah]

I'd like to know how many births were illegitimate.

BTW, the life expectancy is so low because of babies and children's deaths. There were lots of old people then.

[eccentric]

"A three-minute call from Denver to New York City cost 11 Dollars.

The average wage in the U.S. was 22 cents per hour.

Sugar cost four cents a pound; Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen; Coffee was fifteen cents a pound."

These 3 need to be listed closer together.

What will it be like in another 100 years? We will be smirking at post like this saying, "We still don't have flying cars...."

[aposiopetic]

Where did you get all those stats, Pastor? It's quite a collection!

[xJones]

The average life expectancy in the U.S. was 47 years.

Rather misleading because the infant/childhood mortality rate was much higher than today. Just look around at any old cementary and you might be shocked at the large number of early deaths recorded from years preceeding the 1920s.

The infant/child mortality rate of 1905, for instance, would definitely have contributed to pulling down the average life expectancy to 47 years.

[marmar]

I wasn't even a state yet............

[alexbg]

"Canada passed a law that prohibited poor people from entering into their country for any reason."

can you imagine a thing like that today?
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