This humorous tongue-in-cheek report about the up-coming census report that year was printed in The New York Press in 1910.
ADVANCE CENSUS REPORTS
- Number of families owning phonographs 2,264,721
- Number of men holding worthless checks and invalid promissory notes. 72,986,279
- Number of cities where taxes are reasonable 6
- Number of ministers – 232,689
- Number of ministers who would leave their present charge if they had a “call” with an increase in wages – 232,590
- Number of women who like the hobble skirt – 0
- Number of individuals who take a vacation annually – 54,428,674
- Number of individuals who annually return broke – 54,428,671
- Number of men who threw away their winter overcoats last spring – 3,456, 287
- Number of men who will search the attic for those coats this fall – 3,456,281
