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The Ladies Home Journal from December 1900, which contained a fascinating article by John Elfreth Watkins, Jr. “What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years”. Mr. Watkins wrote: “These prophecies will seem strange, almost impossible. Yet, they have come from the most learned and conservative minds in America. To the wisest and most careful men in our greatest institutions of science and learning I have gone, asking each in his turn to forecast for me what, in his opinion, will have been wrought in his own field of investigation before the dawn of 2001 — a century from now. These opinions I have carefully transcribed.” Some highlights: Nicaragua will ask for admission to our Union after the completion of the great canal; Automobiles will be cheaper than horses are today; Photographs will be telegraphed from any distance; Man will See Around the World, Persons and things of all kinds will be brought within focus of cameras connected electrically with screens at opposite ends of circuits; No Mosquitoes nor Flies, Insect screens will be unnecessary. And perhaps most bizarre: Peas as Large as Beets. Peas and beans will be as large as beets are to-day.” Uh, Okay.

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