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10
May
FROM THE PDX RETRO BLOG
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09
May
WHEN MOTHER’S DAY WAS ESTABLISHED
On May 9, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson issued a
presidential proclamation that officially established
the first national Mother’s Day holiday to celebrate
America’s mothers.
The idea for a “Mother’s Day” is credited by some to
Julia Ward Howe (1872) and by others to Anna Jarvis
(1907), who both suggested a holiday dedicated to a
day of peace.
Many individual states celebrated Mother’s Day by 1911,
but it was not until Wilson lobbied Congress in 1914 that
Mother’s Day was officially set on the second Sunday of
every May.
In his first Mother’s Day proclamation, Wilson stated that
the holiday offered a chance to “[publicly express] our
love and reverence for the mothers of our country.”
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09
May
FIRST MOTHER’S DAY PROCLAIMED IN 1914
On May 9, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson (above) issued a
presidential proclamation that officially established the first
national Mother’s Day holiday to celebrate America’s mothers.
The idea for a “Mother’s Day” is credited by some to Julia Ward
Howe (1872) and by others to Anna Jarvis (1907), who both
suggested a holiday dedicated to a day of peace.
Many individual states celebrated Mother’s Day by 1911, but it
was not until Wilson lobbied Congress in 1914 that Mother’s
Day was officially set on the second Sunday of every May.
In his first Mother’s Day proclamation, Wilson stated that the
holiday offered a chance to “[publicly express] our love and
reverence for the mothers of our country.”
J. C. Leyendecker painted ‘Pot of Hyacinths’ to be used
on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post’s May 30, 1914
issue.
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01
May
A GIFT IDEA FOR MOTHER’S DAY IN 1947
Whitman’s confections have been produced for over 175 years.
Originally a "confectionery and fruiterer shoppe" set up in 1842
by 19-year-old Stephen F. Whitman on the Philadelphia waterfront, Whitman’s first became popular with traveling sailors and their
wives.
They would often bring imported fruits, nuts, and cocoa which
were obtained during their voyages to Mr. Whitman so that he
could make the popular European confections people craved
in that era.
Stephen Franch Whitman (1823 – 1888)
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