1910's Lifestyles and Social Trends | Important Events in Lifestyles and Social Trends, 1910–1919

1910

• The average American worker earns less than fifteen dollars per week and works fifty-four to sixty hours per week.
• Life expectancy in the United States reaches 48.4 years for men and 51.8 years for women.
• Seventy percent of bread consumed in the United States is baked at home, compared with 80 percent in 1890.
• After approval by an act of Congress, the U.S. Post Office inaugurates parcel post service to carry packages up to four hundred pounds.
• Over ten thousand nickelodeons in cities across the nation provide entertainment, mainly for the poor. For an admission fee of five to ten cents, customers can sit in wooden seats and watch an hour of one-reel movies, vaudeville, and sometimes a dog act.
• In Ohio, fifty-eight of the state's eighty-eight counties vote to ban the sale of liquor.
• Among the new products available this year are electric kitchen ranges (with three...