Hello Halfway Brook Friends. This post is the first in a series which features November events in Eldred, New York, which are taken from Farewell to Eldred, in 1920 to 1947.
November 1920
• Republican Warren G. Harding won Presidential election.
November 1921
• Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, dedicated by President Harding.
November 1922
• The Ottoman Empire’s last sultan abdicated.
• Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon were first in over 3,000 years to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, the Valley of the Kings, Egypt.
November 1924
• Calvin Coolidge elected US President.
• First Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade held in NYC.
November 1925, Eldred, NY
My dear Raymond,
We are counting on your vacation being the first two weeks in November and hope you will not disappoint us at that time. I think you are registered up here, so you can vote if you are here at election time which I hope you will be…
The electric line is going up quite fast. I believe they are putting up the wire through the village now. Dad and Bill are busy getting our wood. They have quite a lot ordered ahead, I suppose on account of the coal strike…Love from all, Mother—October Letter from Jennie Austin, Eldred, to her son Raymond Austin, Farewell to Eldred, pp. 54–56.
November 1926
• NBC Radio Network formed by Westinghouse, General Electric, and RCA.
November 1927, Eldred, NY
Invitation to Guido Bischof annual Venison Dinner at Ferncliff Lodge:
You are cordially invited to attend the Fifth Anniversary Venison Dinner to be held at Ferncliff Lodge, Eldred, Sullivan Co., N.Y. at 2 p.m. Sunday, November 13, 1927, under direction of Guido Bischof. Dinner De Luxe $5.00 per person.
Note: Guido Bischof owned Ferncliff Lodge by the early 1920s. Early on he had built a “bungalow” for the actress Lillian Gish. Prohibition lasted from 1920 to the end of 1933 and there was quite a bit of activity at the bungalow.—Farewell to Eldred, p. 101.
November 1928
• Herbert Hoover won the election.
1928 Tether Coal Bill, Eldred, NY
Walter and Meda Breen Tether lived in Barryville, but ran the Washington Beach House on Washington Lake. Walter also sold coal and wood as there is a paid bill from November 15, 1928, in my Austin grandparents’ collection. The cost of 6,130 pounds of coal at $15/ton was $45.98.—Farewell to Eldred, p. 80.
November 13, 1929, Austin farm, Eldred, NY, 2:10 p.m.
It is a drizzly, dark day, but Lon and Willie are working on our plot in the cemetery. Lon did not come to dinner until about one o’clock…
—Our Old Farm, Aida Austin’s Diary.—Farewell to Eldred, p. 86.
November 1930
Construction had started on the Empire State Building, in March 1930. Up to 3,000 men worked on the framework which rose at a rate of four to five stories per week. The masonry work started in June and completed in November.
—Farewell to Eldred, p. 108.
