Cost of goods and services through years 1900 and 2000
An itemized page lists prices and facilities across eras 1900 and 2000. It covers clothing from E.W. Edwards & Son and Lord Taylor at Carousel Center, groceries, vaudeville and cinema seats, real estate asks, seven-day subscriptions, loans, stock market data, salaries, Onondaga Lake attractions and cleanup plans, wildlife counts, and golf courses, highlighting stark price and service contrasts over the century.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord & Taylor
Carousel Center
Dungey and White Grocers
S. Warren St
Smith’s Markets
Land O'Lakes
Grand Opera House
Hoyts Cicero
Beard Avenue
Camillus
Post-Standard
Mome
Gates Wiseman
Apex
New York Stock Exchange
Exchange
NYSE
Onondaga Lake
Propte
Iron Pier
Syracuse
Syracuse Mayors in 1895 1901 and Budget Strains
In Syracuse, the nation’s 30th largest city, long roads and house calls marked era as McGuire served 1895 to 1901. Critics called him spendthrift while deficits grew for three consecutive years through 1900. An 1899 editorial noted duplicate city jobs and calls for reform amid rising spending and a 38 member county board of supervisors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Onondate
Vital
Janes
McGuire
Syracuse
Onondaga County
Board of Supervisors
Charles Hiscock
Dewitt
Transportation in Syracuse in 1899
Giranportation notes that cottages, trains and trolleys dominated transport. Six railroads, seven electric lines, three steamboats and 16 horse-shoers operated. Automobiles were rare with six cars in Syracuse in October 1899, three gas powered, one steam and two electric. Costs included $400 for steam, $3000 for electric.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Syracuse
Health and death in 1900 Onondaga County costs
The article lists leading death causes such as pneumonia tuberculosis diarrhea and enteritis heart disease and other illnesses. Infant death rate in Onondaga County stood at 225 per 1000, with obstetrical issues yellow fever and smallpox noted. Ob obstetrical services cost five dollars for normal birth and simple fractures ranged five to ten dollars. Amputations cost twenty five to fifty dollars and a doctor’s house call was one dollar plus fifty cents per mile, with barter or cash as payment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Onondaga County
Petticoat Epidemic and 1900s Syracuse Life
The Post-Standard notes a petticoat fashion scare fueled by marketing and low-cost skirts. It recalls Syracuse style with derbies and silk hats. It recalls early 1900s views on digestion and cooking, with boiled foods and meat tests. It describes family life, child etiquette, and routine spanking. Laundry took mothers days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Syracuse
Vega Stables
Central New York Census Figures From 1900
The 1900 Census enumerates 346,395 people across Cayuga Madison Onondaga and Oswego counties with 32,227 foreign-born residents. It notes 2,974 Colored residents and 2,425 Negroes in the region, while Onondaga Nation counts 354 registered members in 1893 and Germans and Irish dominate immigrant population as Italians begin arriving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Cayuga
Madison
Onondaga
Oswego
New York
Louella Derrick
Onondaga Nation
Onondaga County
Syracuse Social Aid Groups in 1900 Shine Through Churches
By 1900 Syracuse relied on church and fraternal networks for relief with four major charities operating locally. The county boasted 165 fraternal groups, 31 temperance societies, 56 Catholic societies, 68 trade unions, and 154 other social organizations, nearly one per 356 residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
The
Rescue Mission
Salvation Army
Visiting Nurses Association
Syracuse
Une
Also Mentioned on This Page
Syriane
E.W. Edwards & Son
Salina St
New York State
Clinton Square
Emote
Gnandaga Hironca
Taft
Giransportation
Ononaga
Associstia
Ourtesy
Onontays
Omondage
Heston
Six Nations
Frank Logan
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