1900–1919 Popular Music: Ragtime, Broadway Songs, Patriotic Music, Irish Ballads, Early Blues, Tin Pan Alley, and Songs Before Radio Took OverPopular music from 1900 to 1919 lived in a different world than the hit songs that came later. Before commercial radio became part of everyday American life in the 1920s, most people heard songs through […]
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1906 History, Facts, and Trivia Quick Facts from 1906 U.S. Population: 85.4 million — Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more populous than CaliforniaU.S. Life Expectancy: Males — 46.9 years | Females — 50.8 yearsAverage annual income: $200–$400 per yearOnly 14% had a bathtubMaximum speed limit in most cities: 10 mph2 in 10 American adults
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“The Man with the Muck-rake”by President Theodore Roosevelt, on April 14, 1906, in Washington, D.C.*Given as President Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the office of the House of Representatives[1] Over a century ago Washington laid the corner stone of the Capitol in what was then little more than a tract of wooded wilderness here beside
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Helen Keller’s Letter to Samuel L. ClemonsMarch 27, 1906My dear Mr. Clemens:It is a great disappointment to me not to be with you and the other friends who have joined their strength to uplift the blind. The meeting in New York will be the greatest occasion in the movement which has so long engaged my
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