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Ellie:
These quotes were sent to me in an E.mail.This is Off Topics,is it not?The source of it  comes from a stats. site on the internet.

 I guess it is up to us to use discernment even in light hearted comments.

I certainly don,t  intend to deceive or to knowingly lie to anyone.

Dribble and B.S. are not judgments?

 Peace to all.....

hillsbororiver:

--- Quote from: Fester on July 30, 2009, 07:32:36 PM ---Ellie,

What is the source of this dribble?
Not passing judgment yet but on the surface it rings of B.S.
 
Fester
 


--- End quote ---

Hi Fester,

I searched Google using "100 years ago" & "100 years ago America" and if this is B.S. then it is very prevalent B.S. Actually I don't really know what part of it would be so unbelievable.

Here are a few of the many links I found that substantiate Ellie's post;

http://sci.tech-archive.net/Archive/sci.med.transcription/2004-12/4055.html

http://www.naute.com/stories/100years.phtml

http://www.rense.com/general70/100yrs.htm

Peace,

Joe
 

bluzman:
Joe, thanks for the links and to Ellie for bringing up this topic. It's amazing how fast time goes by. Some of you may find this interesting.
My mother's father was born shortly after the end of the American Civil War. My father was born in 1897. He was orphaned at 12.
He was taken under the wing of what we would call today a naturalist, and taught my father many things about nature and how to survive.
Logging and fishing were the only industries there at that time, even less nowadays. At 16 my father started to work in the lumber camps,
and worked two winters in order to buy his first rifle. He fought in France in the First World War. My family started out in a log cabin a good walk from the small town there. A few years before my birth, the house where I was born had been started. We had no indoor plumbing
until I was perhaps 10 or 12, can't remember exactly. I remember my younger sister and I carrying water when August came around. The well would go dry at that time. When the house was being built, my mother was alone most of the time with all the kids in that small log cabin. At that time there was six boys and one girl. One boy died if pneumonia at around age two. my father served in the Vets Guard
during the Second World War. They would escort prisoners from the port of Halifax and take them by train to Northern Ontario and beyond out to the Prairies.
By the time I was born, life for my family was not as hard as during those days. I have six brothers and three sisters. They have all done
well in life and all have grandchildren.
As for me, I guess that I'm the black sheep of the family, who doesn't have any wool.
Bluzsman
P.S. Anyone who contacted tuberculosis was quarantined and and put in special hospital, more secure than some of the prisons are today.

ez2u:
being a history nut this is all very fascinating to me bluzman how old are you may i ask?

bluzman:
Hello Peggy
   History has always fascinated me also. I will be 64 this winter.
Ches

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