Monday, May 4, 1914. Gov. Ammon on the ropes.

 The Boomerang was pondering Colorado Governor Ammon's fate. . . and war with Mexico.

In Mexico, Revolutionary and future president of the country Álvaro Obregón began a blockade around Mazatlán.

Ammons would survive the impeachment attempt, but he's seen the handwriting on the wall politically and made his current term, which expired in 1915, his last.

Suffragette Mary Ann Aldham slashed John Singer Sargent's portrait of Henry James as part of the ongoing suffragette campaign of terrorism that had been going on in recent weeks in the UK. The painting was on display at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

The victimized painting.

The attack is proof of a certain danger.  Even really good causes attracts acts out of outright goofballedness.

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Saturday, May 2, 1914. National Suffrage Day

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Wednesday, April 29, 1914. The Ten Days War ends and the Coalfield War with it.

With Federal troops arriving, John R. Lawson of the United Mine Workers ordered miners to lay down their arms, which they did on this day, but not before an additional fifteen Colorado minders were killed.

Union representative John R. Lawson, who would be tried for murder in connection with the killing of a deputy sheriff during the Coalfield War, sentenced to a life of hard labor, but whose sentence was reversed by the Colorado Supreme Court in 1917.  He became vice president of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company in 1927, and served in that role until 1939.  He passed away in 1945 at age 74.

Protests in support of the miners broke out in New York City.

Upton Sinclair made an appearance at the protests.

In Denver, not too surprisingly, the first several pages were dominated by the private war, as well as a looming potential one with Mexico.

And it was the opening day of minor league baseball in Denver.

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Tuesday, April 28, 1914. President Wilson orders Federal troops into the Colorado Coalfield War.

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Sunday, April 26, 1914. No longer in doubt.

The Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition completed its exploration of the River of Doubt by reuniting with a relief party led by Lt. Antonio Pyrineus.   The meeting had been prearranged.  

Three men died during the expedition, and Roosevelt had come very close to doing so.  His health never recovered, although he'd very soon be agitating for an American entry into World War One, and seeking appointment to a volunteer division for that effort.

The Cheyenne paper was predicting that was going to break out at any moment, but I mostly put this issue up for the interesting cereal and flour advertisement.

It is interesting that "The Girl I Left Behind Me" was still a popular military tune, apparently, at the time.

Post Toasties getting in the war mood, however, is a classic.

Apparently Cheyenne had its own brand of flour at the time.

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Friday, April 24, 1914. Occupying Vera Cruz.

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Friday, April 24, 1914. Occupying Vera Cruz.

Fighting in Veracruz ceased and the occupation of the city began.

Raising the flat at Veracruz, April 27, 1924.

35,000 obsolescent German, Austrian and Italian rifles and 5,000,000 rounds of ammunition were smuggled into Ulster from Germany and distributed by automobile in the Larne Gun Running incident to Ulster loyalists in anticipation of fighting over the issue of independence, with the Ulster Volunteers opposed to it.

Captain Robert Bartlett and Kataktovik reached Emma Town having traveled 700 miles in their effort to secure relief for his stranded party.  They secured passage there to Emma Harbour, a weeks journey, so that he could travel to Alaska by ship from there.

Emma Harbor, 1921.

The Brooklyn Federal League team was photographed.

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Thursday, April 23, 1914. Wrigley Field Opens, War Panic.

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