09/08/18 Weekend Grif.Net - In 1900 (part 2)
Robert Griffin
[From the book "When My Grandmother Was a Child" by Leigh W. Ruttledge, which begins, "In the summer of 1900, when my grandmother was a child..."]
*90% 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."
*Sugar cost four cents a pound. Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen. Coffee cost fifteen cents a pound.
*Most women only washed their hair once a month and used borax or egg yolks for shampoo.
*Canada passed a law prohibiting poor people from entering the country for any reason, either as travelers or immigrants.
*The five leading causes of death in the US were: Pneumonia and influenza, Tuberculosis, Diarrhea, Heart disease, and Stroke.
*The American flag had 45 stars. Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii and Alaska hadn't been admitted to the Union yet.
*Drive-by-shootings, in which teenage boys galloped down the street on horses and started randomly shooting at houses, carriages, or anything else that caught their fancy, were an ongoing problem in Denver and other cities in the West.
*The population of Las Vegas, Nevada was thirty. The remote desert community was inhabited by only a handful of ranchers and their families.
*Plutonium, insulin, and antibiotics hadn't been discovered yet.
*Scotch tape, crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced tea hadn't been invented.
*There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.
*Only 10% US adults could NOT read or write. Yet only 6% of all Americans had graduated from high school.
*Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at corner drugstores. According to one pharmacist, "Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach and the bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health."
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Dr Bob Griffin
"Jesus Knows Me, This I Love!"