Famous Deaths of the 1920s (Part 5)

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[@footballlvnlady]

My sister became septic after an infection from a stomach surgery. This was in 2014. She spent 8 days in the hospital on strong antibiotic IV’s. She battled breast cancer years after. She’s healthy and stubborn as hell these days.

[@virginiagrundman4012]

No antibiotics then!!

[@allisonpaige4786]

That's Wonderful News!!

[@mojojojo8223]

I dont know you or your sis but i love you both. Her for beating cancer and you for being by her side❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@marylizakowski706]

​@@mojojojo8223 I echo your sentiments@

[@Idontwant1]

I had developed sepsis after I fell and scraped my knee. I almost lost my leg because of it. That was in 1977. It escalated fast. But I’m glad the Doctor was able to fight it.

[@Nigelsmom2136]

So sad about Calvin Coolidge Jr.'s death. Sepsis is a painful, agonizing slow death. How awful for his parents.

[@YourHalfSister]

Hearing that a parent with more than one child has a “favorite” makes me sad. I’ve seen it in my own family, and it’s so messy and hurtful. I’m my mother’s only child, so I’ve never been subjected to it personally.

[@marilyntaylor9577]

Being an only child isn’t so bad. I longed for a sibling, but luckily I had other baby boomer kids on my block. We played outside 24/7 and had wonderful childhoods.

[@donttalktomeyoureannoying8736]

It’s so crazy because my mother would always say that my youngest brother was her favorite and she was extremely close to my eldest brother more than anything, however, she put more money/energy/effort into my life than the 2.

[@cyberzenASMR]

Honestly, being established as the “favorite” only means that the child does everything the parent asks and then some. For example, I was the favorite to my parents. My grades were higher, top in sports, won trophies and recognitions. I spent very little time with either of my parents. If my other siblings were in trouble, needed help with school work, or financially bailed out it was me that was asked by a parent to do so. Favorite simply means that you are not only an easy child to deal with but you are a child who helps out. Coolidge favorite son merely made his life easier raising the other son. Freed up his time to run an entire country. So favorite in terms of tallied actions as an award and the parent further your own personal causes by influence and leverages. But all the kids are loved equally. It is no different than a parent in the pre Stone Age that a offspring went hunting and brought back food for the rest of the siblings.

[@twistoffate4791]

But you are a half-sister? As in your username?

[@allenatkins2263]

My parents despised us all equally.

[@mikki3961]

We take antibiotics and vaccines for granted. We are so fortunate today. I am a fairly new subbie and I have really enjoyed your content.

[@paulnicholson1906]

My grandad got blood poisoning in 1916 at the Somme. I think it was a minor laceration. I never really realized how lucky he was to survive it. It took over a year and a half for him to recover and he was finally discharged unfit for further duty. Probably the reason I’m here today.

[@jamesportrais3946]

Thanks for your comment Paul. Of course, it's likely that your grandfather would have recovered much more quickly had antibiotics been available at that time however, I imagine that his ultimate survival owed more than a little to improved sanitary & infectious knowledge by then. My great-grandfather was shot in the head at some point during WWI and left for dead by his comrades (for obvious reasons) only to be found still alive by the Red Cross. I don't have any family left to speak of, so I don't know the details of where & when but like you I wouldn't be here to tell the tale had he not been discovered. He carried said bullet in his head for the rest of his life, yet it seems not to have caused any major impediment as I can count quite a number of celebrities (who wouldn't have any knowledge of my existence) as part of my extended family.

[@mortalclown3812]

@@jamesportrais3946 Those days can hardly be imagined. The horror is too great. Difficult to believe the world was ever at war after WWI.

[@lilwil-ns3uo]

I've had sepsis. Even with today's modern medicine, it was awful. I was not cleared for months. Take good care of yourself. There are many ways to develop sepsis. Always go see your doctor if you have a high fever or a fever over 3 days, any odd symptoms or signs of infection. Catch it early. It's a hard lesson to learn and even today, people still die from sepsis.

[@fokkerd3red618]

Your right. He's lucky he made it out alive. I'll bet he never forgot that Hell the rest of his life. May he R.I.P

[@jamesportrais3946]

@@mortalclown3812 The fact is that horrors can never be uninvented nor unimagined, and your deceptively simple expression of incomprehension crystalises the dichotomy of human existence. As we soar the heights of endeavor and achievement so do we ever deeper trawl the depths of depravity in a seemingly unstoppable race of divergence between good and evil. Is there an answer? I certainly do not believe it can be found in fear, but in the courage of those among us that are able to take a stand for what is truly right. As the days of one-way media draw to a close, we all now have access to information prohibited from our recent ancestors. No longer at the whim of simple propaganda, we each have a duty of care to ourselves and each other; not to mention those who will come after. Where freedom allows, we have the sovereign power to separate truth from lies, form our own opinions, and affect our own governance. Only in this way can we avoid conflicts that are always imposed by our elites and leaders, and truly hold them accountable for their actions.

[@annegoodreau4925]

First Lady Grace Coolidge wrote a poem about Cal Jr.'s death. The first line is: You, my son, have shown me God. It's just beautiful.

[@fokkerd3red618]

How can't anyone have a favorite child. Calvin's other son must have felt unworthy in his father's eyes. His feelings must have been deeply hurt as a result.

[@rebeccaduboise285]

I don’t get it either.

[@carlcushmanhybels8159]

Parents aren't supposed to have favorite children; but many do. Most parents in moderner times strive to balance and compensate, striving to be as fair as possible. I think many parents have "situational" favorites: shifting favorites between children based on different categories, their unique strengths and charm.

[@DemensionJ]

Kids are people, and some people are jerks

[@Modeltnick]

Lots of people died in the twenties from thing that seem relatively minor today. My father’s brother, my uncle, died at age 7 from diphtheria in 1927. My grandmother, his mother, died in 1998 and is said to have never gotten over the loss.

[@annabrahamson4320]

There are shots for diphtheria now. Sepsis is still dangerous, a friend of mines son got this, they were not sure what he had for at least a week. His organs were failing, he was in a coma. He did survive, but spent months in the hospital

[@Skarfp]

I love these bits of history that have mostly been forgotten. The story about Ray Chapman was especially heartbreaking.

[@mikeseier4449]

Favorite son Calvin,.. Wonder how the other son John felt about that description?…

[@stephenperretti8847]

Regarding Coolidge.. The boy was given "sulfa" drugs, a newly discovered remedy for infections. The drug helped, but there was not enough in the USA to continue treatment. I learned this on a cspan discussion many years ago.

[@ohwell94]

When they described the infection my 1st thought was Calvin Coolidge was a diabetic or an undiagnosed one

[@annabrahamson4320]

Sulfa is slow to act too, and blood poisoning is fast.

[@mortalclown3812]

Had no idea this happened to the Coolidge family. How heartbreaking for his parents. History was always somebody's right now...as was their joy and grief. Thank you for reminding us all that we'll be history, too. PS eternal props to Alexander Fleming for finding antibiotics. So many saved.

[@lizbrown7232]

As well as the lesser-known scientists who made its practical use possible.

[@ianpeddle6818]

Fascinating thank you - my mother and I got blood poisoning during my birth - I was a breach birth - thank the Lord I was born in the era of antibiotics!! Fascinated video ax always 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@barbaraedgley2634]

My grandfather died in 1924 or '25 in his mid 20s, at work, leaving my grandmother a young widow with 2 young kids.

[@bobbystclaire]

My mother's paternal grandfather in 1922 the same year as my mother was born, was born, he served for the Union in the Civil War.

[@Michael_R1957]

A 1922 death, then famous Criminal Defense Attorney Earl Rogers. He was (allegedly) the inspiration for the later creation of Perry Mason. Love your channel. I hope that you will eventually do this. Thank you.

[@carlfrano6384]

I have enjoyed and appreciated all five parts of your "Deaths of the 1920's" series. Please continue to produce more parts.

[@kmiller0402]

It was a black mold that made the excavation of King Tut health hazardous…..no curse….no spell….

[@stacynels4]

Finally Tut's Tomb "curse" sensibly explained.

[@56cadd]

Nashty.

[@joycemiller-bean1814]

Extremely informative, thoroughly researched and not at all depressing-just very interesting. Well done!

[@angelthman1659]

The Calvin Jr one was kind of depressing, but it *was* well done.

[@feralbluee]

such really sad stories. how did Coolidge ever carry on to become President, and then carry on as President? how terrible. the second and third deaths were tragic, too. 🥀

[@jamesmiller4184]

If pressed I'd say duty, dedication and the right stuff.

[@randomvintagefilm273]

I'm so glad I never had children. I don't have to worry about losing the or leaving them behind when I die. I enjoy my brother's kids.

[@neilforbes416]

2:58 Charles Dawes(middle initial, 'G') was the initial composer of the song *It's All In The Game* later developed by Carl Sigman.

[@1952jodianne]

It's still a great, timeless song. Thank you Vice-President Dawes.

[@duncanidaho2130]

You're a kind and respectful man. A touching and heartfelt video.

[@voyaristika5673]

I'm guessing people dying from curses was much more common before antibiotics. 🤔 You produce very good content and it's surprisingly you don't get a lot more views. Hope you keep it up! 💯

[@6omega2]

Wow, that must have sucked for that other Coolidge son. You know, knowing you were not "the favorite."

[@valeriefields7902]

Wonder how the son's mother handled this.

[@56cadd]

@@valeriefields7902 she didn't. She knew her place in times.

[@timothycarley7348]

I met John Coolidge in the Early 1980's and Visited the Family Farm in Plymouth Vermont.He was a very Kind,Pleasant man

[@jenniferhansen3622]

That's very cool!! It bothers me that his dad supposedly had a favorite child. I wonder if that bothered John?

[@Rachaelann59]

This is one of my fav series from this channel! I don't find it depressing; it's interesting & puts remembrance back on these people of the past. Thank you for all your hard work & I look forward to the next one.

[@jameseaton9746]

I love the background music of your videòs

[@ardiffley-zipkin9539]

Well done. Looking forward to more tales !

[@miss_midge_]

So very sad Rae never got to know her daddy Ray.

[@amiedetherese]

You didn't mention Lord Carnarvon's home which is of great interest to many people who like Downtown Abbey. Lady Carnarvon publishes a blog every Monday.

[@kristinebailey6554]

*Downton

[@JudgeJulieLit]

The leg "red streaks" from the foot infection were gangrene.

[@Diosprometheus]

One of the News articles had an interesting quote by Lord Conan Doyle about the curse. Doyle wrote a short story "Lot No. 249" ,first published in Harper's Magazine in 1892., about a Mummy beside Sherlock Holmes and the Lost World.

[@myboyz9391]

I will never understand how a parent can have a favorite child. I get that there always seems to be one child in the bunch that a parent has commonalities with. But not a favorite child. Very sad story.

[@steven2212]

You're very good at this. I hope you teach our youth history in some capacity.

[@tommunyon2874]

My mother was born in 1920. Some of these stories I've heard, but not with all of the facts. Medicine did have its shortcomings back then. My mother's older sister died in surgery at the age of 3. She had what was called telescoping of the bowels.

[@susanpage8315]

That is so sad. My mom was born 1925. She had a sister -1 year older, who died of leukemia at age 4 in 1928. I can’t imagine the pan the parents endured.

[@annabrahamson4320]

My dad's little sister died in the late 20s of scarlet fever, she was only 2 years old. A year later she gave birth to a son who died shortly there after.

[@hakeemfullerton8645]

If ever do a part 6 perhaps you could also mention legendary Wisconsin politician, Robert La Follette Sr. or even a solo video on the man himself

[@TranscendianIntendor]

Last I understood the common thread of illnesses caused by those opening caskets of the Pharaohs, if you call them caskets, was a particular mold. In the Lord's case same as for so many before penicillin became commonly available bacteriological infections killed many of us. Between the Telescope and the microscope it has been the microscope that has lead to discoveries that have saved an awful lot of us, myself included.

[@richiejohnson]

It's hard to imagine a world with no antibiotics 😓

[@KurtBowers-sc7dw]

I had sepsis 2 years ago, I never want to go through that again 😢.

[@jenniferhansen3622]

I'm glad you're well now. 😊

[@esterherschkovich6499]

How sad...no one expects to Bury their children 😪

[@moondancer4660]

How sad to lose your son like that😢

[@LionofthetribeofJudah650]

Love your channel keep up the good work 👍

[@JJW77]

You are a very good interesting detailed story tale with a calm and pleasant voice.

[@dawndellarocco2362]

These are great, interesting and informative.

[@mistervacation23]

Calvin Coolidge once said everybody complains about the weather but nobody doesn't think about it

[@jenniferhansen3622]

Ha ha ha! Did you get that from the Andy Griffith show when they talk about who said that? Andy says that Mark Twain said it and Floyd says that Calvin Coolidge said it. Andy: "Calvin Coolidge didn't say that." Floyd": "Well what did Calvin Coolidge say?" Of course we know it wasn't either of them. 😂

[@mistervacation23]

@@jenniferhansen3622 I can't fool you

[@jenniferhansen3622]

@@mistervacation23 😆

[@carlcushmanhybels8159]

I've learned lots watching these; e.g., celebrities struggles I didn't know about and that Cal Coolidge had a family tragedy. On the baseball death: Tony Conigliaro, of the Boston Red Sox, also died from a thrown pitch hitting him in the temple; same vulnerable location as Ray Chapman. Tony C. though didn't die right away or in a few days: Badly injured he had to retire from baseball. The physical and mental/ emotional damages of the injury kept taking tolls, and running him down; till Tony C. died a few years after the 'Pitch," from the injuries' complications. After Tony C's head injury, in '67, Little League and High School /Mid School baseball mandated batting helmets, adding a temple patch. The major Leagues soon did too.

[@Diosprometheus]

Tony led the American League in homers in 1965 with 32. He was only 20 years old and in his second season. He made a comeback after the Jack Hamilton beanball in 67. He missed the entire 68 season but he was the comeback player of the year in 69. 1970 was His final year with the Red Sox and his best ever. He hit 36 homers and had 116 rbis. After that season his eyesight worsened and he did not play in 71, His final year was 72 with the Gene Autry Angels but he could no longer hit and was cut from the team after the season. When he was 37 years old he had a heart attack and shortly thereafter a stroke from which he never fully recovered. He passed away at the age of 45.

[@Diosprometheus]

Some people think Carl Mays is not in the HoF because of that pitch that killed Ray Chapman. He has lifetime statistics comparable to some other pitchers who are in the Hall. Even before hitting Chapman, Mays had a reputation as a headhunter.

[@moe5700]

Agatha Christie , hands down the greatest whodunit mystery murder writer , wrote a novel based on Lord Carnarvon and a few other novels or short stories based more or less on other wealthy English Egyptologists

[@jamesmiller4184]

Cal Jr.'s and Carvarvon's deaths were likely due to suppressed immune systems. Back in that day, for instance the essential relationship between vitamin C and D intake were not known, plus the fact that vitamin C cannot be synthesized by the body, which fact does mandate at least a small but constant quality intake of it. Of course many other factors influence immunity levels we know, but this main area of non-awareness just might have proved key in the deaths of these two. Think of all the blisters that do NOT go septic without applied topical antibiotics. That our silent President Cal was able to go forward through his terms after this, is a testament, I believe, the the general excellence of the man.

[@maryjaneblues7712]

Played in wool suits in that heat!?! SheeSh!!😂

[@laurademilio8884]

You have it wrong; Calvin actually was wearing sneakers, but without socks. He and his brother were not wearing their wool dress suits to play tennis in, but more casual and sensible clothing for the sport. All bios and blogs attest to this. They had dressed up in those suits earlier that hot morning for a publicity photo session as the boys were just home from boarding school for the summer and there was more than usual public news interest in the President's family as the 1924 Presidential pre-election summer activity was upcoming. After the photo session the boys hastily changed their clothing and ran back out to start their tennis match, and by the next day young Calvin was limping around the White House and already feverish. All that was medically possible at the time was done for Calvin Jr. some 20 years before sulfa drugs and antibiotics such as penicillin were available to combat acute bacterial infection; IV's of mercurochrome and other primitive topical antiseptics the most advanced hospitals had in the 1920s were used to treat Calvin to no avail, including operating on his by then blood-poisoned legs and infected stomach, but surgery not worked -- the teen fell into delirium and then coma and died of virulent sepsis caused by staph infection at the hospital a few days after the initial blister appeared.

[@roadrunner381]

Very informative, thanks!👍

[@Deepbluecat]

Great job putting these together!

[@debraleesparks]

It’s a wonder anybody lived long before we had antibiotics.. Love Grandma Debbie

[@joseybryant7577]

Hope Floyd Collins is in this video. His death was quite a fiasco, and was kept off being the largest story between the wars by Charles Lindbergh.

[@The1920sChannel]

I'll make a note of Floyd Collins and use the story in a future installment. Thanks for that!

[@chucknowakowski6676]

My grandmother sister died at 12 yr old from blister as well

[@kerrydruck9036]

I just discovered your channel a couple weeks ago and I absolutely love it! Keep up the good work😊

[@ohsublime1923]

I am loving your channel! This is one of my favorite eras and you bring it to life beautifully. Your doing a great job❤

[@uslines]

My grandmother died in 1918 of the Spanish Influenza. My mother, born in 1917, was left an orphan. The SI was world-wide, the Black Death of the 20th century.

[@louisegross3886]

Loving these vids from way back

[@hakeemfullerton8645]

A few important names who died in the 20s that could be brought up in a future video: Robert La Follette Sr. William Jennings Bryan Nellie Bly Eugene V. Debs Robert Todd Lincoln Franz Kafka John Burroughs

[@lizcortez7272]

Love your channel

[@feralbluee]

i wish people still read Sinclair Louis. he was a very good writer and important. Upton Sinclair write one if the best working class novels about factory workers. the other two books are also important. but you read them in college anymore. history doesn’t seem to be a big thing in college these days.

[@Rachaelann59]

Finally!! Thank you!!

[@velocitygirl8551]

U did such a great job!!

[@honorladone8682]

Septicemia.

[@alanbash2921]

Best Site On The Internet .............. ( hoping for more Lon Chaney Sr. episodes )

[@sunnybeaches1331]

Good video, thanks!

[@davidcross701]

Tragic what happen to President Coolidge. Seeing the ghost of this son out his window......

[@DulceN]

I don’t think we appreciate enough the modern medicine we have…. So sorry for all those that died unnecessarily.

[@maxrolland8858]

Very good vidéo

[@jonwashburn7999]

Thanks Recognized some of the names from this video.

[@dianabeurman364]

AWSOME!!

[@nanaingallswilder7363]

I’m sorry he had a favorite and and it seemed to be common knowledge. I wonder how the other son’s life was.

[@martlettoo]

I don't understand how humanity even survived long enough to invent antibiotics. It seems like any little thing could (and can) take us out

[@lillianmcgrew217]

So sad😢😢

[@ladyagnes9430]

Still, no William Desmond Taylor? That was one of the most sensational murders of the early '20s.

[@user-tm2hv8pm6i]

Ten years later the Movie "The Mummy" in 1932

[@pgpc6448]

What about Coolidge’s other son, I bet he suffer by being 2nd best, the one who was alive.

[@TheSilverScreenSurfer]

If you're looking for world leaders who died in the 20's there's; Lenin (1924), China's Sun Yat Sen (25), Japanese Emperor Taishio (26), Charles I (last Hapsburg Emperor, 22), Mehmet VI (last Ottoman Sultan, 26), German President Fredrich Ebert (1925), WW1 French PM Clemenceau (29). Three UK PM's; WW1 UK PM Herbert Asquith (28), UK PM Andrew Bonar Law (after less than a year, 23), pre WW1 UK PM Earl Of Roseberry (23), for the USA there's US President Woodrow Wilson (24) & his VP Thomas Marshall (25). In fact the 1924 election was the last one for a few notable Democrats & Progressives, besides Wilson & Marshall there was Progressive Party leader Robert La Follette who died 6 months after the election in 1925, 3 time Dem candidate William Jennings Bryan (25),1904 candidate Alton Parker (1926) finally the Socialist Labor Party candidate Frank Johns who died during the 1928 campaign when he drowned trying to save a boy who had fallen in a river.

[@TheAfterHoursLV]

I get lost in this stuff. Really lost…

[@mariacardenas4665]

I love it 🥰

[@motaman8074]

Must have been fun to be Coolidge's other son.

[@jeanhansel5805]

I know. His sons were one year apart in age and the younger was his favorite. How can anyone have a "favorite" child? Seems weird and insensitive to me.

[@gavin169]

@@michaelverbakel7632 want to feel old? He died 22 years ago. In 2000.

[@johnreidy2804]

@@jeanhansel5805 That's because you are a sensitive little snowflake like many of this era

[@1952jodianne]

@@jeanhansel5805 Perhaps not so much the favorite, but the "Baby". Not such an unusual feeling, the "baby" is often cut a lot more slack by the doting parent.

[@garyschultz7768]

can anyone name the opening song playing @32 seconds in ....its a trumpet with a swinging jazz tempo & I'd like to know who wrote & who preforms it here..& of course listen to it in its entirety....thanks. jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj

[@honodle7219]

It isn't depressing. It is intensely interesting.

[@bobbystclaire]

My mom was born in 1922 oh, her grandfather that is her father's brother died that year he had served in the union during the Civil War.😮

[@guineapiglady2841]

My stupid history teacher was WRONG about Coolidge.

[@leighcarlson87]

How so?

[@guineapiglady2841]

@@leighcarlson87 He said he was 'lazy'

[@freedmm3122]

My youngest brother had diphtheria in the 20’ds .my mother took a spoon and pulled out a lot of white stuff out of his throat.and saved his life.

[@vikmarisco5679]

Wish I lived back then

[@joyceyagoda4207]

Those tombs must have been filthy!

[@iseegoodandbad6758]

I'm amazed at how boyish men back then looked even well into their 30s. Granted they didn't have steroids in everything back then. They were also breastfed as babies which helped them retain their neotenic features longer. These days I see teen boys with beards!!!

[@donttalktomeyoureannoying8736]

That is a REALLY good observation. I think men started to look like grown men in their teens since the 70s.

[@Maximus5775]

@@donttalktomeyoureannoying8736fr let’s talk about this

[@jamesb.9155]

A face wash and a bit of isopropyl alcohol upon a swab, could have saved the fine gentleman's life from such a dreadful tragedy as an infected mosquito bite, poisoning the blood. We take so much for granted now.

[@maxlinder5262]

What about Marilyn Miller ...????

[@TheConorsmithusa]

must of been awkward for coolidges other son who wasnt the favourite son

[@donnaharman1271]

Silent cow?? No. His name was Calvin. He was called silent Cal since he tended to be reticent.

[@1952jodianne]

In fact, he's one of our most quotable Presidents, with a wry sense of humor.

[@sue1048]

Depressing we know we’re gonna die dude

[@adrianadealmeida1472]

👍

[@colleenbrown3366]

Let's hear it for penicillin!❤

[@feralbluee]

omg - 15 minutes ago. 😋🌷🌱

[@SunsetBoulevard111]

Rudy Valentino was poisoned.

[@audreyrosewalden280]

They are cursed all tombs

[@alandesouzacruz5124]

Iron horse 1924 John Ford FIRST great movie my sugestion of next episode