Events 1906-1907 when Court was created and began operation.

1906

The great San Francisco earthquake occurs.

Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in negotiating an end to the Russo-
Japanese Ware

The President was given the authority to declare national monuments to be historic landmarks by the Antiquities Act of 1906.

Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle, a novel about the problems in the American meat-packing industry. and Congress passes the Pure Food and Drug Act.

Maria Montessori opens a school for children.

1907

Oklahoma becomes the 46th state.

A record 1.29 million immigrants enter the United States.

The first exhibition of cubist painting is held in Paris.

Decade Facts & Events

There were 76,000,000 Americans by the end of the decade.

Live expectancy was: 47 years females, 46 years males.

There were 8,000 cars and 10 miles of paved roads. By 1906, 15 states had a speed limit of 20 miles per hour. The first cross country auto trip took 52 days.

The Wright Brothers made their first flight at Kitty Hawk.

The average worker made $12.98 a week for 59 hours of work.

There were hundreds of job openings for typewriter secretary.

Kellog's Cornflakes were made available to the general public.

Frank Lloyd Wright was designing homes.

William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer were adding sports and multiple frame cartoon strips to their newspapers.

Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward catalogs were read more than any book other than the Bible.

The Wonderful World of Oz and Call of the Wild were published.

Martha McLeod Bethune opened the first school for African American girls.

Nickelodeons were a new form of entertainment in 1905 where you paid a nickel to enjoy a short moving picture.