Documents in Year 1913                     

Links of Interest:

• William Howard Taft, Twenty-seventh U.S. President

(1909-1913)

• William Woodrow Wilson, Twenty-eighth U.S. President

(1913-1921)

• Edward S. Curtis

(American Photographer of Native Americans 1899-1929)

• Model T's selling fast!

Due to assembly line process reducing production cost, sales price drops to $575 each and sales soar! Ford becomes the world's biggest car manufacturer. 

• First Scheduled Airline - St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line

Plan for the first scheduled airline conceived by Percival Elliot Fansler who corresponded with Tom Benoist, manufacturer of Benoist airplanes and coordinated with the city of St. Petersburg and found financial investors.  Room for one paying passenger.  Flights started January 1, 1914 and ran through May 5, 1914.

• Fruit cocktail is created by a California canner.
  Anderson, Jean American Century Cookbook. p 79