Editormum's Oddments: A Century of Change....the Mind Boggles

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Thursday, November 18, 2004

A Century of Change....the Mind Boggles

In 2003, Bob Hope died at the age of 100. It's time to revisit where we were a century ago. This ought to boggle your mind. Here are the U. S. statistics for 1903.... The average life expectancy in the US was 47. Only 14% of the homes in the US had a bathtub. Only 8% of the homes had a telephone. A... Sign in to see full entry.

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