Editorial: Sitting up to take notice

Posted on August 15, 2011 |

• Editorial

By Angelo S. Lynn

In the Internet age, you come across the occasional mass-email that, at the very least, offers some amusing reading; if not real insight. In a tip of our hats to those waning days of summer where we imagine ourselves horizontal in our hammocks reading stuff of relative irrelevance (those were the days!), here are some interesting comparisons of how life was in this country in 1911 — 100 years ago:

•  The average life expectancy for men was 47 years.

• Fuel for the Model T car was sold in drug stores only.

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