1922: Stiltwalker Kenneth Hill

From a 1922 issue of The American Magazine:

Going Through College on Legs 16 Feet High

Back in 1911, nine-year-old Kenneth Hill’s gang in Beloit, Wisconsin, poked fun at him because he seemed unable to walk on 24-inch stilts like the rest of the boys. To-day, at nineteen, he is helping himself through college by ambling around the United States on the tallest pair of stilts in captivity.

1922: Traffic Manager Marie Melchior

From a 1922 issue of The American Magazine:

A Fleet of 150 Trucks With a Girl at the Helm

Miss Marie Melchior is traffic manager of a big fleet of motor trucks, certainly an unusual role for a woman. But consider the further fact that Miss Melchior is eighteen years old. Yet she directs the operation of one hundred and fifty motor trucks.