Lex Anteinternet: The Saturday Evening Post. August 17, 1918.

Friday, August 17, 2018

The Saturday Evening Post. August 17, 1918.

The cover for the issue of the Saturday Evening Post that came out on Saturday, August 17, 1918, featured a female driver of the National League for Women's Service, a wartime organization formed by the National Civic Federation to aid in the war effort. As a post we're working on here will explore, man such civilian organizations aided the war effort in various ways during World War One and some of them had a strong female contingent in an era that generally predated women in the service, although some nations did begin to incorporate women into their armed forces in this period.

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This blog has been around since 2009. In the very first post, we asked the question: "What the heck is this blog about?"

Our answer to the question was: "The intent of this blog is to try to explore and learn a few things about the practice of law prior to the current era. That is, prior to the internet, prior to easy roads, and the like. How did it work, how regional was it, how did lawyers perceive their roles, and how were they perceived?"

We also noted: "Part of the reason for this, quite frankly, has something to do with minor research for a very slow moving book."

All of this is still true, but the focus of the blog has changed somewhat. It now focuses on the era from 1890 to 1920 in general, rather than on the law and lawyers specifically, although that may be far from obvious. It's also become the location where we comment on anything we feel moved to comment on.

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