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Freak and Fun Clubs Spread Across American Life
A photo shows a large group of youth with an automobile as a caption describes the National Collegiate Hitch Hikers association founded at Long Beach junior college. The story surveys quirky clubs from Nightshort Club of America to Society for Giraffes, Quiet Birdmen, Caterpillar club, and many others, noting their humorous origins and social roles.
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Dettei
National Collegiate
United States
Teddy Roosevelt
Teddy
Club of America
Society For the Prevention of
George
Ben George W. Dulany, Jr
Clinton
Iowa
Chicago
Senate
St. Paul, Minn
Society of Giraffes
American Newspaper Guild
Washington
St. Paul
Lloyd White
Cleveland Press
G. B. Wollan
Manchester
N. H
Goney Island
Milwaukee
Wis
Quarryville
L. L. Runkel
R. P. Fairbairn
Circus Fans of
America
Karl Kae Knecht
Indiana
Chet Shafer
Three Rivers
Benjamin Franklin Affieck
Portland Cement Association of Chicago
Julius Rosenwald
Sears Roebuck and Company
Grand Quin
Will Hays
Czar
Arthur Pound
Couzens
Michigan
the Fossils
The
Fossils
National Amateur Press Association
James M. Beck
Cyrus H. K. Curtis
George H. Moyes
Josephus Daniels
Frederick E. Ives
G. Wash Press
G. Wash. Pullers
Harry C. Webster
G. Wash
National Society of Long Fellows
Six Foot Association
Phil E. Zimmerman
Topeka
Kan
Society of Long Fellows
Knights of
Weary Club
Norway
Maine
Fred 5. Sanborn
Wilson
Woman's Party
Alice Paul
American Federation
Carrie Chapman Catt
Casi
Intere Federation
Mmére
England