An exciting time musically. Jazz and Ragtime had caught the publics imagination. Tin Pan Alley was turning out sheet music by the thousands. It was the age of the birth of the flat recording disc, and the phonograph.

In the world at large the Wright Brothers demonstrated powered flight and Einstein revealed his Theory of Relativity. 

Kellogs released "Corn Flakes" on the world and Ford turned out the first Model T .

The Titanic sank followed by the even greater disaster of the First World War.