Lex Anteinternet: May 24, 1921. Clarkston, Washington and Lewiston, Idaho, Bulhoek Massacre, and the Northern Irish vote.

Monday, May 24, 2021

May 24, 1921. Clarkston, Washington and Lewiston, Idaho, Bulhoek Massacre, and the Northern Irish vote.

Clarkston, Washington and Lewiston, Idaho. May 24, 1921.

Nothing stays the same, of course.

While I haven't been to Clarkson/Lewiston, I dare say its changed. I'd take the 1921 variant over today's, almost certainly.

Slightly colorized version of the same photograph.

On this day in 1921 voters in Northern Ireland ovewhelmingly voted for unionist candidates.

In South Africa a 163 Xhosa followers of a Xhosa excommunicated lay Methodist minister were killed in what is known as the Bulhoek Massacre. They were killed by heavily armed police in a battle whose beginning is confused. The community was made of a group known as the Israelites who followed the beliefs of their founders apocalyptical predictions.

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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."

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