One hundred and 18 years ago. What a difference a century makes! These are some of the U.S. Statistics for the Year 1907:

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

Only 14 percent of the homes in the U.S had a bathtub.

Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.

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.

The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.

Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more
heavily populated than California.

With a mere 1.4 million people, California was only the 21st most populous state in the Union.

The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower!

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

The average U.S. worker made between $200 and $400 per year .

A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year.

A dentist made $2,500 per year.

A veterinarian $1,500 per year.

And a mechanical engineer about $5,000 per year.

More than 95 percent of all births in the U.S. took place at HOME .

Ninety percent of all U.S. Doctors had NO COLLEGE EDUCATION!

Instead, they attended so-called medical schools, many of which were condemned in the press AND the government as ‘substandard.’

Sugar cost four cents a pound.
Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen.
Coffee was 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 that prohibited poor people from entering into their country for any reason.

Five leading causes of death in the U.S. were:
1. Pneumonia and influenza
2. Tuberculosis
3. Diarrhea
4. Heart disease
5. Stroke

The American flag had 45 stars.
Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii, and Alaska hadn’t been admitted to the Union yet.

The population of Las Vegas, Nevada was only 30!!!!

Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and ice tea hadn’t been invented yet.

There was no Mother’s Day or Father’s Day.

Two out of every 10 adults couldn’t read or write.

Only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school.

There were about 230 reported Murders in the ENTIRE U.S.A.

Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at the local corner drugstores.

Back then pharmacists said, ‘Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach and bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health.’

The highly anticipated sequel to WHERE’S WALDO has finally been released!
-Sheila Tolley-

Maybe Michigan gets LUCKY and no one finds her.
-MST-

 

 

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
-John Adams-

If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
-Mark Twain-

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself.
-Mark Twain-

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
-Winston Churchill-

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
-George Bernard Shaw-

A liberal is someone who feels a   great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
-G Gordon Liddy-

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
-James Bovard-
Civil Libertarian

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.   
-Douglas Case-  
Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.   
-PJ. O’Rourke-
Civil Libertarian

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense   of everybody else.
-Frederic Bastiat- 
French Economist (1801-1850)

Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.   
-Ronald Reagan-

 

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the  facts.
-Will Rogers-

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free!   
-P J. O’Rourke-

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
-Voltaire-

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you!
-Pericles- (430 B.C.)

No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.   
-Mark Twain- (1866)

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.
-Anonymous-

The government is like a baby’s alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.   
-Ronald Reagan-

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
-Winston Churchill-

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.   
-Mark Twain-

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.   
  -Herbert Spencer-
English Philosopher (1820-1903)

There is no distinctly Native American criminal class, save Congress.
-Mark Twain-

What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.  
-Edward Langley-
Artist (1928-1995)

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
-Thomas Jefferson-

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
-Aesop-

FIVE BEST SENTENCES

You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work, because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation!

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God loved the people in the world so much that he gave his one and only Son to save them. As a result, everyone who believes in the Son will not die. Instead, they will live for ever with God.’