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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ricks_-_Surf_City on Sunday, August 14, 2011 - 02:36 am:

This has been recycled for several years now. At least they updated the car in the pic to a Model T, although still calling it a Model R, which was quite different. 1908 was the last year for the R.

Today I just happened to be looking at an article from "The World's Work," April 1914, and caught this:

".. the automobile has been a sort of prodigy. Look at the figures for a moment and see how it has grown - it is a growth thatwould be remarkable in an inexpensive article, but is almost incredible when the price of automobiles is kept in mind. In 1900, a few hundred cars were manufactured in this country; in 1903, 10,000 were built; in 1904, 18,000; in 1905, 24,000; in 1908, 56,000; in 1909, 120,000; last year, 300,000. It has been like compounding both interest and principal."

Now look at the numbers below. You can bet they are all faked.
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(pic of red T Touring) 1910 Ford Model R

Show this to your friends, children and/or grandchildren!

THE YEAR IS 1910
This will boggle your mind, I know it did mine!
************ ********* ***********
The year is 1910
One hundred years ago.
What a difference a century makes!
Here are some statistics for the Year 1910:
************ ********* ************
The average life expectancy for men was 47 years.
Fuel for this car was sold in drug stores only.
Only 14 percent of the homes had a bathtub.
Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.
There were only 8,000 cars and only 144 miles of paved roads.
The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.
The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower !
The average US wage in 1910 was 22 cents per hour.
The average US worker made between $200 and $400 per year ..
A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year,
A dentist $2,500 per year, a veterinarian between $1,500 and $4,000 per year, and a mechanical engineer about $5,000 per year.
More than 95 percent of all births took place at HOME ..
Ninety percent of all 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.

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

The American flag had 45 stars ....
The population of Las Vegas , Nevada , was only 30..About the same size as ST. PETERS, MISSOURI .
Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced 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 and only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school.
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'
Eighteen percent of households had at least one full-time servant or domestic help.
There were about 230 reported murders in the ENTIRE U.S.A. !

I am now going to forward this to someone else
without typing it myself. From there, it will be sent
to others all over the WORLD - all in a matter of seconds!
Try to imagine what it may be like in another 100 years.
IT STAGGERS THE MIND
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Yeh, it sure does. Why do people do this crap? Is there spyware embedded?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Martin Vowell, Pacoima, CA on Sunday, August 14, 2011 - 03:36 am:

Obviously too much time on their hands, but I think we had 48 stars on the flag in 1919, not 45. I think the 48 star flag was adopted in 1912 and that was the flag till the induction of Hawaii and Alaska in 58.

And I wouldn't be surprised if there was something embedded in it either (certainly wasn't facts).


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Herb Iffrig on Sunday, August 14, 2011 - 07:53 am:

I get that email about twice a year and I always snicker and think of how contrived it seems. It is usually sent to me by someone who knows I have a model T and I suppose they think I will get some information from it.
I t comes around like the 1928 repair rates postcard.

Herb


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steve Jelf, Parkerfield, KS on Sunday, August 14, 2011 - 08:33 am:

One more internet example of a few facts swimming in a sea of BS. Another is the long list of taxes, many of them repeated under different names to pad the list, with the assertion that "a hundred years ago none of these taxes existed". A lot of apparently intelligent people swallow this stuff whole. Probably the same folks who are devoted listeners to bloviating millionaire media gasbags who eternally regurgitate the Sacred Talking Points of one "base" or another.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mack J. Cole on Sunday, August 14, 2011 - 10:00 am:

Well,what would be of intrest to folkes like myself is if someone would come up with a list of the sort Ricks posted or a list of the taxes,that was correct.
I do believe the facts would be intresting to say the least.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Fred Schrope on Sunday, August 14, 2011 - 11:09 am:

Steve - you quoted the magic words

"apparently intelligent people".


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Michael Deichmann, Blistrup, Denmark on Sunday, August 14, 2011 - 11:34 am:

Well, I agree they could have done their homework better, but who says the newsarticle from 14 is any better and more accurate?
The digits may be inaccurate, but the overall message about what a giant step mankind have taken over the last 100 years still stand I think.
I'm old enough to have a grandmother, born in 1898 (and died 1980) that told me she remembered that all the kids in the family rushed to the window when a car drove by up on the road.
There is a lot of modern thing youngsters of today takes for granted. It can be sound to stop up sometime and wonder how it was before cellphones for example.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dick Lodge - St. Louis MO on Sunday, August 14, 2011 - 11:49 am:

Michael, I have often thought along those same lines. I'm older than you are, and in my case it was a great-grandmother who was born in rural Ontario in 1866 and died in St. Louis in 1962. She was orphaned when she was nine and went to live with an older married sister on a farm outside Napanee ON. Through the years, I have also thought of the changes she saw in her lifetime.

She always referred to the car as "the machine" and, if you were talking to her on the phone and she had nothing more to say, she simply hung up. She was a great cook, but didn't have any recipes and couldn't tell you how much of a given ingredient to use. I was 20 when she died and I wish now I had talked with her more about her early life.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Norman T. Kling on Sunday, August 14, 2011 - 05:49 pm:

The e-mail started out before 2008 and each year the date was changed to the current year but the rest of the story and the picture was the same. To most people living today, the cars made 100 years ago are about as relevent as the horse and buggy are to those who are not Amish or buggy collectors. Some of today think of WWII as modern history, but for those old enough to remember it, today, it is as far back as the Civil war was to us when we were born. The Model T was manufactured before WWII
Norm


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Wayne Sheldon, Grass Valley, CA on Monday, August 15, 2011 - 01:12 am:

I first saw that list about seven years ago, and at first didn't think much about it. About a year later, it came around again, and I noticed the 8000 automobiles. I knew it was wrong. Oldsmobile alone built more than 8000 automobiles in one year, and that was before 1905. By this time, Ford had well beaten Oldsmobile. All the other information is about ten years out of date as well
Thank you, Ralph, for posting this. It has been a few years since anyone sent it directly to me. I always get a chuckle from reading it. I don't believe there is "spyware embedded". Just ignorance.
Drive carefully, and enjoy, W2


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