> The year is 1907.
> One hundred and one years ago.
> What a difference a century +1 year makes!
> Here are some of the U.S. Statistics for the Year 1907 :
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> The average life expectancy in the U.S. was 47 years old.
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> Only 14 percent of the homes in the U.S. had a bathtub.
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> Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.
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> A three-minute call from Denver to New York City
> cost eleven dollars.
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> There were only 8,000 cars in the U.S. and only 144 miles of paved roads.
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> The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.
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> Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more ...