September 1887: At the American Bar Association’s annual meeting in Saratoga, N.Y., the Committee on Jurisprudence and Law Reform made a report in favor of enactment of laws, similar to those in England, providing for general use of the whipping post as the punishment for wife beating and for brutal assaults with sling shots, brass knuckles or similar weapons. “It brought out the only exciting debate of the session and was finally laid upon the table,” the Law Journal reported.
100 Years Ago
September 1912: The Law Journal editor, returning from a European trip, lamented the dearth of U.S. news in newspapers there. “The Paris edition of the New York Herald, which is printed in English, purports to give American news but it is chiefly of the millionaires residing at Newport and on the Continent and in no wise fills the bill of an American newspaper,” he wrote. But, he added, “Perhaps it is quite as well.”
