Freak and Fun Clubs Fill Belonging Gap Across America
A vivid survey describes a wave of quirky clubs born from national humor and social urge to belong. From Nightshirt Club of America to Society for the Prevention of Calling Porters George, these groups cherish novelty, camaraderie, and playful identity nationwide.
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United States
Nightshort Club of America
L. M
Doc"’) Davis
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Teddy Roosevelt
Teddy
George W. Dulany, Jr
Clinton
Iowa
Chicago
George
Society For the Prevention of
Dulany
Georges
Admiral George Dewey
George Ade
George M. Cohan
Georges Clemenceau
George William
Cardinal Mundelein
Babe
Ruth
George H.moses
New Hampshire
Liars Club
Burlington
Wis
Weary Club
Norway
Maine
Fred S. Sanborn
When Clocks Stopped
Bloomington man Bryan Carlock recounts surviving the 1933 Long Beach earthquake on March 10. Watches stopped at 5:55 as buildings cracked, people fled, and a tidal wave rumor spread while they sought shelter and aid.
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Ello
Bryan Carlock
Bloomington
Ill
Bryan
Long Beach
Calif
Lieut
Chester Linton
Sis
Chester
Most Slowly Written Works as Acta Sanctorum
A fragment notes the phrase Most Slowly: Written Works as Acta Sanctorum, introducing a medieval or scholarly framing of texts treated as sacred records. The line suggests a cataloging approach to slow, careful composition in historical literature.
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Acta Sanctorum
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By Elmo Scott
Watson
National Collegiate
Hitch Hikers’ Association
Long Beach Junior College
Senate
White Bear
Minn
Sons of
G. B. Wollan
The
St. Paul News
Society
Aviation
Quiet Birdmen
Manchester
N. H
Coney Island
N. Y
Bear
Milwaukee
Quarryville
L. L. Runkel
R. P. Fairbairn
C.F. A
Circus Mans of America
Karl Bee Knecht
Chet Shafer
Three Rivers
Guild
Benjamin Franklin Afleck
Portland Cement Association of Chicago
Julius Rosenwald
Sears Roebuck and Company
Grand Quin
America
Will Hays
Czar
Arthur Pound
Couzens
Michigan
Fossils
National Amateur Press Association
Thomas A. Edison
James M. Beck
Cyrus H. K
Curtis
George H. Moses
Josephus Daniels
Frederick E. Ives
National Society of Long Fellows
Six Foot Association
Phil E. Zimmerman
Topeka
Kan
Society of Long Fellows
Knights of Gleaming Skull
John
Sky”) Dunlap
Santa Ana
Register
Edith Gallop
Bald Head Club of America
Adventurers’ Club
Floyd Gibbons
Broadway and
Linden
City Hall Park
Lennox
Los Angeles
France
WNU