Embedded in that post of yours is an illustration of one of the things that is wrong with America - and, to be fair, the UK also.

According to that; vets, dentists and engineers all earned considerably more than accountants were paid. I very much doubt that is the case now.

The overall homicide rate in 1910 was 4.6 per 100K population, in 2011 it was 4.7 per 100K. So 1910 was not really less violent than now.

http://polyticks.com/polyticks/beararms/liars/usa.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States

Also, hate to bust the sender's bubble, but in 1910 there were 92,200,000 (rounded) people in the US, so with a homicide rate of 4.6 per 100K, there were about 4,250 murders, not 230.

Plus, in those days they didn't cotton too all the men who were being poisoned by their wives.

What a better country this would be were high schools restricted to a few percent of the population. Better for the high schools and better for the population.

" ... The average life expectancy for men was 47 years ..."

Most of us reading this would already be dead. (I assume similar stats for women and children although they didn't show in any demographics.)

Life was not any better back then, merely simpler and shorter.

Death came quickly and often.

Death came swiftly and often, especially in 1918.

Remember, that's average life expectancy at birth. Life expectancy for men who reached adulthood was mid-sixties.

I was surprised by the high income earned by engineers.

Do you know the car manufacture's name; can't make out the letters on the radiator.

Remember, that's average life expectancy at birth. Life expectancy for men who reached adulthood was mid-sixties.

I was also going to make that point. It is one of the biggest problems with using statistics in history. Those stats are totally misleading without context.

Weren't there 46 states in 1910?

madtntaxpayer, it looks to me like a Model T Ford.

Things did change a lot a hundred years later. Good thing, most of them are positive.

Twenty-two cents an hour being two silver dimes and change, being something like $4.75 in Federal Reserve Notes today. Pretty dang productive given the technology of the day.

Weird.

I never watched The West Wing series until it came up on my netflix radar a couple of weeks back. Since last Thursday, I have consumed a dozen or so episodes during a brief, if brutal, onslaught of intemperate Austin weather.

My ears pricked yesterday when the show's sub-theme focused on a book recounting american facts from one hundred years ago. I wondered if it was true or simply screenwriter fantasy.

I'm pretty sure you just listed nearly every item that particular episode covered.

Hope you are physically well, emotionally satisfied and mentally stimulated, Gerard.

Big hugs and warm kisses.

No wSy there were only 230 murders. Also prices for good were quite high. It took the average worker 45 min to earn enough to buy 12 eggs. Today that would make eggs cost nearly $10 per dozen.

If I could escape to 1910, I'd go in a red hot minute.