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A Hundred Years Ago

By Elton Camp

(Statistics and facts apply only to the USA)

It was forty-seven years the average man would live
And twenty-two cents an hour the average pay to give

There were eight thousand automobiles--not any more
And the fuel for them was sold only in the drug store

The most common car was by Ford and called Model T
And there were only 144 miles of paved road, you see

Bathtubs at fourteen percent were an item very rare
Just once a month the average woman washed her hair

In Las Vegas there were only thirty who did reside
And there was no income tax anywhere to deride

Marijuana, heroin and cocaine were all legally sold
All good for your health, store customers were told

Even the germ theory of disease was still debated
As being wrong many doctors the idea still rated

The most common government was rule by a king
Stayed so until to an end the Great War did bring

Space travel was impossible most scientists did say
Or else, being shot out of a canon might be a way

Even the millions of galaxies were not know to exist
Stars float around in a cloudy mass, they did insist

There were only 230 reported murders in the USA
So there were some very good things about that day

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