Lex Anteinternet: Christmas, December 25, 1920.

Friday, December 25, 2020

Christmas, December 25, 1920.

The 25th was a Saturday in 1920, which means that the Saturday weekly magazines hit the stands on that day. The Saturday Evening Post chose to go with a holiday theme, which makes sense for a magazine coming out on Christmas Day.

Then, as now, some people work on Christmas Day, and that included this group of Dominican National Guardsmen who were lined up for chow.

The Dominican Republic was under American occupation, which had been a campaign issue in the 1920 election. William Harding was opposed to continuing the occupation, as were most Americans. Be that as it may, it would take some time to wind it down and during that time, as this photograph makes clear, the National Guard was very much under American influence.

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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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