May 07, 2021
Thanks to President Woodrow Wilson, Mother's Day is just around the corner. In 1914 Wilson signed a proclamation making Mother's Day an official holiday held annually on the second Sunday in May. But it wasn't his original idea.We have Anna Jarvis to thank for that.What started as a campaign by Jarvis to honor mothers in 1908 has turned into a massively commercialized holiday, despite Jarvis's work to prevent it. And when cardmakers, florists, and gift-sellers are involved,... more
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