Here's a count of lodges, fraternal organizations, clubs, societies, etc. in mostly immigrant Milwaukee WI in 1889. 200,000 population, hundreds of clubs.
Me, I would've been all over the South Side Working People's Reading Club. Maybe the Dew Drop Pleasure Circle, too, whatever the hell that was.
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