A friend passed along this interesting list of US statistics for the year 1905. You can find the list reproduced in several places around the Web, and I have no idea about the original source. For that matter, I can’t swear that any of it is even accurate, although most of it seems about right.

Anyway, the point was to illustrate how much things have changed in a century. To be sure, these stats paint a picture of a world far different from USA circa 2k6. However, I just don’t feel like whoever compiled the list did a good enough job connecting the dots. So I’m taking the list – most of it, anyhow – and adding in the 2006 analogue so that it’s a little clearer what the numbers mean.

Here we go (and apologies in advance for the totally uncalled-for cheap shots): Read more