Woodstock 1925

WOODSTOCK 1925

By 1925, the Jazz Age was in full swing and “America roared, soared, and was never bored.” It was the year Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington made their first recordings. The Phantom of the Opera opened at movie theaters. The Ku Klux Klan marched on Washington, D.C. People sat on flagpoles, danced the Charleston, read a new novel called The Great Gatsby.

Here are a few things of note that the Vermont Standard reported on during that year.

·        President Calvin Coolidge was elected to a full term after serving out the term of Warren Harding, who had died in office.

·        Woodstock resident Franklin S. Billings is elected Governor.

·        The KKK is denied its application for incorporation to conduct business in Vermont.

·        Woodstock Electric Company provides service to the village.

·        Winslow’s Clover Gift Shop and F.H. Gillingham’s operate on Elm Street.

·        There is a bus route between White River Jct. and Woodstock.

·        There is also a train route between White River Jct. and Woodstock.

·        The Arts & Crafts Committee offers various classes including carpentry.

·        The Woodstock Country Club is in operation.

·        F.A. Richmond operates a Ford & Fordson Dealership at King’s Corner.

·        The Woodstock Garage on Central Street offers warm storage for your car battery or car in a steam-heated building.

·        There are chicken pox cases in Woodstock.

·        The automobile is much more prevalent than horse-powered vehicles.

·        Hard surfaces are being used on highway construction.

·        The Child Labor Movement is in full swing.

·        People are canning meat.

·        Vermont taxes have nearly doubled in the last ten years.

·        There is tax revenue generated from the sale of liquor by physicians to patients with prescriptions.

·        Prohibition is the law of the land.

·        The Vermont House of Representatives votes to create the VT State Consolidated School Fund.

·        There is a greater effort to get women into politics.

·        There is a statewide effort to promote and increase tourism.

·        Wages are high in the United States.

·        Woodstock residents complain about the quality of water being supplied by the Woodstock Aqueduct Company for drinking and laundry.

Portrait of Billings and Coolidge Families. August 18, 1925.

Interior of Winslow’s Clover Gift Shop on Elm Street - Mrs. Winslow in photo.

Richmond’s Garage.

Read more about the 1920s in this Library of Congress blog, American Fads and Crazes: 1920s

https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2023/01/american-fads-and-crazes-1920s/