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Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia, whose mother had organized women's groups to promote friendship and health, originated Mother's Day. On May 12, 1907, she held a memorial service at her late mother's church in Grafton, West Virginia. Within five years virtually every state was observing the day, and in 1914 U.S. Pres.
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A. In 1858, when Ann Jarvis, a young Appalachian homemaker, organized “Mother's Work Days” to improve the sanitation and avert deaths from disease-bearing ...
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