The 1900s
1900
- Twelve women enrolled in Kindergarten Training School.
- McKinley re-elected president.
- Congress passes the Gold Standard Act.
- Cake Walk becomes most fashionable dance.
1901
- Senator Stout establishes School of Physical Culture for public school
physical training and opens the facility to community use.
- Eight students graduate from Kindergarten Training School.
- Theodore Roosevelt becomes president after McKinley is assassinated
by anarchist.
- J.P. Morgan organizes U.S. Steel Corp.
- Oil drilling begins in Persia.
1902
- Dunn County School of Agricultural and Domestic Economy opens at Third
and Wilson (current Fryklund Hall site).
- Stout re-elected to Senate.
- Knapp, Stout & Co., Company's abandoned log holding pond renamed "Lake
Menomin" by Senator Stout.
- Wilbur Wright flies a glider across the dunes at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
- Beatrix Potter writes the "Peter Rabbit" children's stories.
- Enrico Caruso makes his first phonograph recording.
1903
- Training schools for manual training teachers and domestic science teachers
open - tuition is $100 per year for two-year program.
- Advanced placement allows five domestic science and two manual training
students to graduate first year.
- Henry Ford founds the Ford Motor Co.
- Alaskan frontier settled.
1904
- Stout Training Schools receive gold medal for exhibit at St. Louis World
Fair.
- National Education Association's committee on Industrial Education, chaired
by L.D. Harvey, meets in Menomonie.
- Work begins on the Panama Canal.
- Helen Keller graduates from Radcliff College.
1905
- First neon light signs appear.
1906
- Stout Training Schools hold first summer school with 11 students in
manual training, nine in domestic science.
- Stout re-elected to Senate.
- "Typhoid Mary" found and incarcerated.
- Earthquake and fires destroy most of San Francisco.
1907
- Homemaker's School opens sharing equipment and faculty with Stout Training Schools.
- Oklahoma becomes 46th state.
- "Ziegfeld Follies" first staged in New York.
- Baden-Powell founds Boy Scouts.
1908
- The Stout Institute is formed to simplify administration and clarify
ownership of, and responsibility for, the various public and Stout training
schools.
- Trade school established, enrolling 16 students in plumbing and one in bricklaying.
- General Motors Corp. formed.
- Ford Motor Co. produces first Model T.
1909
- Kindergarten Training School discontinued.
- First Stout Annual appears.
- Girls' striped uniforms, known as "convict suits" by boys, are the subject of much bantering.
- Robert Peary reaches the North Pole.
- Abraham Lincoln's image replaces that of Native American on the penny.
