LIFE 1900 (Currently Out of Stock)

Historical Highlights from 1900 :

• The first electric bus becomes operational in New York City.
• Britain and the US sign a treaty for the building of a Central American shipping canal through Nicaragua. (Later discarded in favor of Panama).
• San Francisco plague of 1900–1904 begins.
• The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing US currency on the gold standard.
• American temperance activist Carrie Nation enters a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas, and destroys its stock of alcoholic beverages with rocks.
• The Wright brothers begin their first manned glider experimental flights at Kitty Hawk.
• Milton S. Hershey introduces the milk chocolate Hershey bar.
• Average annual income for a man: $591, woman: $254.
• Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams.
• A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.