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Destination America
Nothing More Than Faith.

Who are we? The respond is easy . We are all Americans with roots who immigrated to America.There is not one American who has not had an ancestor that at one time was not a foreigner to this country. It may included your great-grandfather 15 times removed who came here 300 years ago, or your grandfather who just came here 80 years ago. They came on diffrent ships . But they shared one thing.HOPE,

They left for the country with streets made of Gold where everything is possible. Where their children could advance.

Did it happen that way? For some maybe, for others maybe not.

They had little else . . . What did they leave behind? Everybody, that they knew. Their ancestries, society, refuges, friends, language and faiths

Occasionally their companions, children, their families.

What was left behind ? Their World.

Most of he immigrants that came here were peasants. Peasants were usually farmers. It was common that if the father owned the land the son's would work with them and would own that land some day. If the father had a trade the son would also have that same trade. When the immigrant came here he did not have a trade he had to learn a unfamiliar trades. A doctor or attorney from another country had to learn it all over again here..

Once a trade was learned they would then send for their family. Usually the wife first, so she could help work to send for the children. Once the children came than they too would work in the mills. Wages were turned over to the parents to help support the family.

Pilgrims 1900-1920

Between 1900- and 1910 nine million newcomers triumphed to America, within 1905 more than one million reached the shores of America. With so many people arriving there was destitution, child labor, Crowding in small towns.
Most immigrants set up there homes in the same town as their relatives.Usually all it took was a letter back to the Old Country, and the rest of the family would follow to America. There was no need of passports to come to America, not until the 1920's.

What was life back than?

Children between the ages of 7 and 12 where working in sweat shops. In Rhode Island, the drop -out rate of 12 year olds in school was 96%. Children died in unsafe mills, lost arms, legs, from poor knowledge of working the machines.

People worked in textile mills, rubber mills, unsafe work for little money. Wages for a 90 hour week , $5.00 to $10.00 a month.

Employment: Dry Cleaners, News Stands, Grocery Stores, Textile Mills, Machinery Work

The Families where huge. Most families had 8 to 10 children.

Housing: Apartments , Houses in Slums

More of the population are getting automobiles.

Transportation: Railroad, Ships, Horse and Buggy, Bicycles built for one or two, Trolleys, Motor Horse Cars(automobiles)

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Presidents: William McKinley 1901-1905
Theodore Roosevelt 1905-1909
William Howard Taft 1909-1913
Woodrow Wilson 1913-1920

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1912 Demorcrats win control of both Houses and Congress.
Best Movies: From the Manger to the Cross
Best Actor: R. Henderson Bland
Best Actress: Gene Gauntier
Painting : The Violin by Picasso
Book : Riders of the Purple Sage by Grey
Poetry : A dome of Many-Colored Glass by Lowell
World Series : Boston Red Socks over NY Giants
Kentucky Derby: Worth-C.H. Shilling up

Tunes Moonlight Bay....
My Meloancoly Baby....
Sweetheart of Sigma Chi....
Waiting for the Robert E. Lee....
Tipperary....
Be My Little Bumblebee....
When Irish Eyes are Smiling....
When I Lost You....
Row, Row, Row...
Famous Items Chevolet marketed
Mayonnaise by Hellman,
Life Savors, and Oreo Cookies introduced
Stainless steel developed
L. L. Bean sold the Maine Hunting Shoe by mail...
Girl Scouts of America Founded
4th down and 6 pt. value TD added to football...
New Mexico and Arizonia become New States
Fun Things A Magazine employer fired 15 Women for dancing the Turkey Trot at lunch
Theodore Roosevelt ran on Bull Moose Party, said he was fit as a bull moose
3,000 thousand cherry trees given to US from Japan
The First Keystone Kops movie was made
Number One News Story of 1912 APRIL 14, 1912 THE TITANIC HITS ICEBERG -1500 SOULS LOST
Car 1912 1914 World War I 1914 10 million die ,
World War I ends Nov. 11 , 1918 at 11 A.M. Soldiers home for Christmas. Car 1914

Second Killer, Tuberculosis:
Rhode Island had a hospital just for the people with Tuberculosis Walham Lake Hospital in Burriville, RI .People were put outside in the winter ,in there beds . It was believed the cold air would kill the Tuberculosis. Here is a picture of my mother in one of those beds.

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Emily age 8 1924
She was in the hospital for 6 years ,ages 8 to 14.

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1918 The Great Epidemic of 1918: The Spanish Flu , over 30 million - 50 million people die in the World, from the Flu. Over 500 Thousands Americans Die. Not enough of Doctors most sent over seas for the War. Every Family in America Hit with the flu. No antibotics just Asprin. 1/3 of Americans have the Flu. Flu disappears in Dec. 1918, as fast as it came. Only to reappear in Spring of 1919. This time not as bad. Once gone never to be a epidemic again. Note: There is still not a cure for the flu. Medicine has advanced at unbelievable rates since 1918. However, Doctors still can not find the cure for the flu that hit in 1918.
1920 Nineteenth Ammendment passed Aug. 26, 1920 Women Given the Right to Vote.
The 19th Amendment reads: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex."

Estimated Prices:

Bicycles $30.00, used $ 5.00

Coffee: $.27lb.

Beer : $.05

Automobiles $500-6,000

Eggs $.34dz.

Bread $.05lb.

Milk $.34 1/2gal.

3 Bedroom Home $2,625.00

New Ford $690.00

Average income $ 519.00

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