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11
May
A MOTHER’S DAY GIFT IDEA IN 1956
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10
May
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The modern American holiday of Mother’s Day was first celebrated in
1908, when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother in Grafton,
West Virginia. Her campaign to make "Mother’s Day" a recognized
holiday in the United States began in 1905, the year her beloved
mother, Ann Reeves Jarvis, died.
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