NEWSPAPER STORIES AND MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS OF THE WATERSTRAATS

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The year, 1904....... * The average life expectancy in the US was forty-seven. * Only 14 Percent of the homes in the US had a bathtub. * Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone. A three-minute call from Denver to New York City cost eleven dollars. * There were only 8,000 cars in the US and only 144 miles of paved roads. * The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph. * Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more heavily populated than California. With a mere 1.4 million residents, California was only the 21st most populous state in the Union. * The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower. * The average wage in the US was 22 cents an hour. The average US worker made between and per year. * A competent accountant could expect to earn per year, a dentist ,500 per year, a veterinarian between $1,500 and ,000 per year, and a mechanical engineer about ,000 per year. * More the 95 percent of all births in the US took place at home. * Ninety percent of all US physicians had no college education. Instead, they attended medical schools, many of which were condemned in the press and by the government as "substandard." * Sugar cost four cents a pound. Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen. Coffee cost 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 prohibiting poor people from entering the country for any reason, either as travelers or immigrants. * The five leading causes of death in the US were: 1. Pneumonia and influenza; 2. Tuberculosis; 3. Diarrhea; 4. Heart disease; 5. Stroke. * The American flag had 45 stars. Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii and Alaska hadn't been admitted to the Union yet. * The population of Las Vegas, Nevada was 30. The remote desert community was inhabited by only a handful of ranchers and their families. * Plutonium, insulin, and antibiotics hadn't been discovered yet. Scotch tape, crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced tea hadn't been invented. * There were no Mother's Day or Father's Day. One in ten US adults couldn't read or write. Only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school. * Some medical authorities warned that professional seamstresses were apt to become sexually aroused by the steady rhythm, hour after hour, of the sewing machine's foot pedals. They recommended slipping bromide -- which was thought to diminish sexual desire -- into the women's drinking water. * Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at corner drugstores. According to one pharmacist, "Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach and the bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health." * Punch-card data processing had recently been developed, and early predecessors of the modern computer were used for the first time by the government to help compile the 1900 census. * There were about 230 reported murders in the US annually.
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8th Grade Final Exam, Kansas 8th Grade Final Exam--Salina, KS, 1895 Have American Schools Declined Under Egalitarianism? Here's an 1895 8th grade exam. You decide. 8th Grade Final Exam Salina, KS, 1895 Grammar: (Time, one hour) 1.Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters. 2.Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have no modifications. 3.Define Verse, Stanza and Paragraph. 4.What are the Principal Parts of a verb? Give Principal Parts of do, lie, lay and run. 5.Define Case, Illustrate each Case. 6.What is Punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of Punctuation. 7.Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar. Arithmetic: (Time, 1.25 hours) 1.Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic. 2.A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold? 3.If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs., what is it worth at 50 cts. Per bu, deducting 1050 lbs. for tare? 4.District No. 33 has a valuation of ,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at per month, and have for incidentals? 5.Find cost of 6720 lbs. coal at .00 per ton. 6.Find the interest of .60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent. 7.What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft. long at $.20 per inch? 8.Find bank discount on for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent. 9.What is the cost of a square farm at per acre, the distance around which is 640 rods? 10.Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt. U.S. History: (Time, 45 minutes) 1.Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided. 2.Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus. 3.Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War. 4.Show the territorial growth of the United States. 5.Tell what you can of the history of Kansas. 6.Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion. 7.Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn, and Howe? 8.Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849, and 1865? Orthography: (Time, one hour) 1.What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic orthography, etymology, syllabication? 2.What are elementary sounds? How classified? 3.What are the following, and give examples of each: Trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals? 4.Give four substitutes for caret 'u'. 5.Give two rules for spelling words with final 'e'. Name two exceptions under each rule. 6.Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each. 7.Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: Bi, dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, super. 8.Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and name the sign that indicates the sound: Card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell, rise, blood, fare, last. 9.Use the following correctly in sentences, Cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, rays. 10.Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication. Geography: (Time, one hour) 1.What is climate? Upon what does climate depend? 2.How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas? 3.Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean? 4.Describe the mountains of N.A. 5.Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba, Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fernandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco. 6.Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S. 7.Name all the republics of Europe and give capital of each. 8.Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude? 9.Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers. 10.Describe the movements of the earth. Give inclination of the earth. ----------------------------------------------- KSGENWEB INTERNET GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY COPYRIGHT NOTICE: In keeping with the KSGenWeb policy of providing free information on the Internet, this data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other gain. Copying of the files within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author.
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