14-year-old Calvin Coolidge Jr., son of the new President, is not impressed by his newfound fame. In fact, he hasn’t quit his $3.50/day job picking tobacco.
“I wouldn’t feel right trying to get by on my father’s success,” says Cal Jr. “I shall have my own career to work.”
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Cal Jr. follows an ideological trend for children of Presidents: last month, Margaret Wilson, daughter of Woodrow Wilson, said that unmarried women should be able to financially support themselves rather than rely on others.
Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of former President Wilson, declares that all unmarried women should be able to financially support themselves, and thus not rely on marriage to make a living.
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@100YearsAgoLive
What an upstanding young man! I'm sure he has a bright future and will live a long and fulfilling life.
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crazy he died less than a year after this, ironically because of an injury at the white house
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Didn't he die from blood poisoning after getting a foot blister playing tennis?
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How could they grow tobacco in Massachusetts? I'd figure we need another few centuries of global warming
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There's a story that one of his fellow fieldhands said, "If my Dad were President of the United States, I wouldn't keep picking tobacco."
"But if your Dad was Calvin Coolidge you sure would."
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$3.50/day was good money back then. That's a little over an ounce of gold every 6 days....
Almost $2000/week in today's money.
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A year later, he was dead. A blister he got playing tennis turned into a staph infection and in the age before antibiotics, nothing could be done to save him.
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