Showing posts with label National Suffrage Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label National Suffrage Day. Show all posts

Friday, May 2, 2014

Saturday, May 2, 1914. National Suffrage Day

There were suffrage parades and marches across the United States.  The day, in fact, had been declared National Suffrage Day by those advocating for a nationwide franchise for women.

In a lot of ways, this was a carryover of labor protests that had occured the day prior, on May Day.

In Wyoming, where Wyoming had the vote, the news was on the war in the state to the South, where Federal troops were deploying.



In later pages, readers learned that (union) railroad workers were refusing to haul troops to the conflict zone, although I've seen photos of the railroads doing just that, which raises some questions regarding this assertion.

The telegraph company was celebrating the construction of the Lincoln Highway, which really wouldn't be much of a thing for years.


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