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Let's Start a New Club
A light survey of quirky clubs from a 20th century press piece highlights groups ranging from the Nightshirt Club of America to the Society for the Prevention of Calling Porters George. It notes how Americans love joining clubs even as new formations proliferate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Nightshort Club of America
L. M
Davis
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Teddy Roosevelt
Mississippi
Teddy
Senate
White Bear
Minn
Sons of
G. B. Wollan
The
St. Paul News
Society
Quiet Birdmen
Chicago
Manchester
N. H
Coney Island
N. Y
George
Society For the Prevention
Dulany
Admiral George Dewey
George Ade
George M. Cohan
Georges Clemenceau
George William
Cardinal Mundelein
Babe
Ruth
George H. Moses
New Hampshire
Pullman Company
Moses
Chet Shafer
Three Rivers
Wis
Guild
Benjamin Franklin Affleck
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
Josephus Daniels
Frederick E. Ives
G. Wash Press
G. Wash. Pullers
Harry C. Webster
Missouri
Knights of
Liars Club
Burlington
Weary Club
Norway
Maine
Fred S. Sanborn
Western Newspaper Union