Lex Anteinternet: Wednesday, March 31, 1909. Common Cup.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Wednesday, March 31, 1909. Common Cup.

The Kansas State Board of Health banned the "common drinking cup" on trains and in public schools.

1919 Red Cross poster instructing parents to teach their children to never use a common drinking cup.

Common drinking cups were very common and it would take years to really fully prohibit their use. Their elimination gave rise to the water fountain, which had no cup, and to disposable cups.

Georgian ended its "convict lease system" with 1,200 convicted felons thereby returned from private stockades to county jails.

The Serbian ambassador to Austro Hungaria presented his government's formal acceptance of the Austrian annexation of Bosnia.

Hull No. 401, the keel of the RMS Titanic, was laid at the Harland and Wolff shipyards in Belfast.

The company still exists and still has a shipyard in Belfast. Founded in 1861, it was nationalized in 1977, and then privatized again in 1989.

Last prior edition:

Tuesday, March 30, 1909. The Army abandons Ft. Washakie.

1900s, 1909, Arapaho people, Army, cavalry, Ethnicities, Frontier Wyoming, Shoshone people, The Frontier West, Wind River Reservation, Wyoming

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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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