In 1907 , Americans had a lifespan expectancy of just 45.6 years for men and 49.9 for women . Even worse , this was the year that typhoid , an abdominal disease spread through water and food supply , ravaged the land .
But alas ! Public health official discovered that 47 people stricken with the disease were all from family that engage a James Cook refer Mary . With " Typhoid Mary " safely quarantined , these were the highlights of that class .
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11. The Chicago Cubs Win the World Series!
The World Series was only four years old in 1907 . What ’s more , Ty Cobb was merely 20 . But youth was on the side of the Chicago Cubs as they come through the World Series , bewilder Cobb and his Detroit Tigers four games to none . The Series was n’t without its share of drama – the first secret plan was phone because of dark .
10. An Economic Boom
Industrial capitalism was on the rise in 1907 and with it came gobs of jobs . Modern businesses create a need for more clerical help and a new " white collar " wit was stomach . More and more worker received a salary instead of an hourly pay . Retail Job also flourished , and charwoman were working more than ever before .
9. A Movie for a Nickel
Way before the TV connection and even before the Ryan and Tatum O’Neal moving-picture show , the tidings nickelodeon intend a minuscule neighborhood theatre of operations where the great unwashed would accumulate to see a pic . The cost ? A nickel , of course ! These theaters keep about 200 people and featured live piano music before each show . motion picture were comedic vignette , animal acts , or vaudeville acts that hold out around 15 transactions each .
8. No One Wanted Their MTV
A lucky few enjoyed record player in 1907 , but the most common agency to hear a fresh song was by piano . the great unwashed would trade , borrow , and collect the flat solid medicine to their pet vocal . A pop choice was George M. Cohan ’s " You ’re a Grand Old Rag " from his hit Broadway musicalGeorge Washington , Jr. The call quickly spread beyond New York City and became a staple in pianissimo bench across the country . Eventually , Cohan changed the rubric to " You ’re a Grand Old Flag , " and the song stay on a national hoarded wealth .
7. And Now for the Tresses
In 1907 , America was at war against tuberculosis , which killed hundreds of mass from the 1880s to the fifties . To complement their pallid complexions , subsister opted for masses of ringlets , thanks to the invention of the waving smoothing iron in the 1870s . Hair coloring was glower upon , but the brave go for it anyway , using herbs , rust , and other concoctions . To advertise hair growth , petroleum jelly , genus Castor vegetable oil , and gallic acid were also part of the beauty arsenal .
6. The “Monobosom” and Other Fashionable Styles
Ladies of the other 20th century certainly did n’t show much cutis . However , they were very creative in enhancing their fully garb silhouettes . The hourglass figure was extremely in demand , but if you were n’t a full - bodied woman by nature , you simply had to work hard . girdle drawstring were pulled so tightly that the hips were forced back and the chest lunge forth creating a " monobosom . " But thing loosen up a shade after dark . To show off their fine jewelry , women of 1907 wore grim sweetheart necklines often accentuate with square boas .
5. Swimming Without a Skirt is a Police Matter
When Australian foresightful - length swimmer Annette Kellerman decide to swim at Boston ’s Revere Beach in a one - composition bathing suit – without a skirt – she was halt . The charge ? Indecent picture , of row ! The 22 year old was n’t the only one under scrutiny . Even babe were required to wear complete washup costume in the land of the free until a quarter of a hundred afterwards .
4. The First Electric Washing Machine
By 1907 , U.S. index caller were growing in technology and exfoliation . As a effect , life became a minuscule easier for woman of the house , especially when the Thor washing machine was introduced by Hurley Machine Company of Chicago . To go with the Thor , a ship’s company in Düsseldorf , Germany , get up with the first household detergent in the same year . It was promise Persil .
3. The Beginnings of UPS
Seattle enterpriser James E. Casey was only 19 in 1907 when he borrowed $ 100 to create a delivery overhaul he hollo the American Messenger Company . He and his friends course errand and delivered packages and trays of food . Most deliveries were done on foot , with recollective trip made via cycle . A Model T Ford was added six years afterwards and the name was changed to Merchants Parcel Delivery . By 1919 , the company had expanded beyond Seattle and was renamedUnited Parcel Service .
2. The Invention of the Paper Towel
The newspaper publisher towel was created by a crafty instructor in Philadelphia who found a way to keep her student from perpetuate a frigid epidemic . alternatively of sharing the same cloth towel , she put her scissors to practice and cut some newspaper into single square . The Scott Paper Company , which was already making toilet paper , got air current of the story . As luck would have it , the company had an intact railroad gondola full of paper that was rolled too thick to be used in the john . Arthur Scott come up with a way to copy the instructor ’s design on a bigger scale . It did n’t take long before he was selling them as a Cartesian product called the Sani - Towel .
1. The Creation of Mother’s Day
After her mother die , Anna Jarvis started a letter - writing political campaign in bread and butter of the jubilation of mother everywhere . A minister in Grafton , West Virginia , obliged and dedicated the second Sunday in May specifically to the later Mrs. Jarvis . Ironically , the woman who is credited with creating what we now bed asMother ’s Daynever became a mother herself . Her entire life was dedicated to caring for others : first her elderly mother and then her blind sister . Jarvis never wed and , in 1948 , go bad a pauper .
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS:
Helen Davies , Marjorie Dorfman , Mary Fons , Deborah Hawkins , Martin Hintz , Linnea Lundgren , David Priess , Julia Clark Robinson , Paul Seaburn , Heidi Stevens , and Steve Theunissen
