From 1921, we find yet another article about a woman presenting as a man and courting another woman. In this case, as in many others, the young woman, Jack, was working as a man to help her mother and younger siblings because men always get paid more than women.
Finds Her Beau is a Girl
New York. — Mary Haldowanatz, aged 23, after two years of courting, discovered that her sweetheart, “Jack Brown,” 21, is a girl.
She appealed to authorities to arrest “Jack,” otherwise Caroline Schimick of Kingston, N.Y. They met in Monticello.
Tired of delays of their marriage date, Mary recently went to “Jack’s” home at Monticello, and “his” mother confessed that the reason for the masquerade was to provide a living for the mother and six other children.
Source: Twin city review. (Champaign, Ill.), 26 Aug. 1921.
