AMERICA 100 YEARS BACK
An American authority is responsible for these notes on the American people as they were 100 years ago: The population was 15,000,000. Two stage coaches conducted all the travellers between New York and Boston. A day labourer thought himself well paid with 2s a day. The whip-ping-post and pillory were still standing in Boston and New York. Buttons were scarce and expensive. Trousers were fastened with pegs or lace. Beef, pork, salt fish, potatoes and hominy were the staple diet all the year. Virginia contained one-fifth of the whole population of the country. There was no public library. Furniture was mostly from England. Every gentleman wore a queue and powdered his hair.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 19 September 1936, Page 11
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116AMERICA 100 YEARS BACK Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 19 September 1936, Page 11
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