Thursday, March 24, 2022

Blog Mirror: Before the invention of safety

Yikes!

1922 Sterno Canned Heat Folding Stove Advertisement

Indoors?

Surely not. That's asking for a house, or more likely, apartment fire.

On Sterno, I didn't realize that it was that old of product. It turns out that the product dates back to about 1900, and that the company advertised its very cheap camp stoves as an ideal item for soldiers during the American involvement in World War One. The company it's named for originally made a variety of other products in addition to the camp cooking product.

None of which I knew before today.

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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.

We hope you'll feel moved to comment as well. While we moderate every comment, so as to weed out Spam, we greatly appreciate the comments where they are offered, and hope to see more.

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