Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Monday October 6, 1941. Yankees take the series, snow in the East.

The Yankees beat the Dodgers, taking the 1941 World Series.

The House of Representatives voted to fix the date of Thanksgiving as the last Thursday in November, nearly placing it where it currently is. It's later become the fourth Thursday in November, which is only slightly different.

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Today in World War II History—October 6, 1941

The first recorded snowfall on the Russian Front occurred on the night of October 6/7, 1941, an event that couldn't have been unexpected, but which carried a lot of significance. Operation Barbarossa had always been a race against the meteorological clock, as well as a battle against the Soviets.

Life Magazine ran a cover illustration for its issue that hit the stands today featuring a pretty girl captioned "Farmer's Daughter". The issue contained photographs of South Dakota, and presumably she was from there. It's interesting in that it's tempting to conclude that this was sufficiently before the pornification of the culture that the endless series of dirt "farmer's daughter" jokes weren't in wide circulation, but the same issue had an article on the "G String Murders", which was some work by Gypsy Rose Lee. That included photos of a staged fight scene with women in their underwear, although pretty tame by modern standards, but that reminds us that the decline was already on, and this was of course the cheap detective pulp novel era.

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Lex Anteinternet?

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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