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A wedding proposal and a promotion honored an Astoria-based Coast Guardsman before he died of injuries from mission Tyler Jaggers died Thursday evening after being injured while on a medical evacuation mission off the Washington coast.

in 1913, more than 5,000 women marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in D.C. to demand the right to vote, marking the first suffrage parade and the first large, organized march on Washington for political purposes. The 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession through Washington, D.C. changed the way protests were viewed and carried out by the American public, and laid the foundation for future marches.

The Procession, unprecedented in both its scale and its tactics, was a major turning point for the woman suffrage movement in the United States. Suffrage leader Alice Paul, who was recently elected head of the National American Woman Suffrage Association’s Congressional Committee, devised the idea for a large-scale public demonstration. Paul, who had spent time in England, witnessed the more militant tactics that the British suffragists used to draw attention to their cause.

Parade organizers strategically selected March 3, 1913 for the march. Woodrow Wilson was to be inaugurated as the new President the following day, and national press was in town and idly awaiting the inaugural festivities.

Paul insisted that the parade march down Pennsylvania Avenue, deliberately following the same route that the inaugural parade would take the next day. The contrast between the two parades would prove striking. Reporters flocked to the suffrage parade, leaving Wilson to arrive at the train station unheralded.

Despite the chaos and violence that initially ensued during the parade, Paul declared the event a success. The parade made national headlines and once again captured the public’s interest in the suffrage movement. Even those who opposed votes for women acknowledged that, as citizens, the women had the right to peacefully assemble.

At today's opening ceremonies for the Winter Olympic Games in Italy, the U.S. Olympic team will wear Ralph Lauren uniforms made with wool from the Shaniko Wool Company. Based near the ghost town of Shaniko — once called “the wool capital of the world” — Shaniko Wool Company is a cooperative of family ranchers across the West. No other town in Oregon has seen more rapid growth and decline than Shaniko, located about forty miles northeast of Madras in Wasco County.

In the early 1900s, Shaniko became a railway junction to ship farm goods from a “vast inland territory of varied resources, extending into California,” and its warehouses could store upwards of 4 million pounds of wool. Competing rail routes and town fires precipitated Shaniko’s decline starting in 1910 and 1911. Today, it is a tourist destination whose centerpiece is the Shaniko Hotel.

Learn more on The Oregon Encyclopedia: https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/shaniko/

Image: Hotel Shaniko is pictured in this undated photograph. OHS Research Library, Orhi56059.