Thursday, May 10, 2007

Alan Rock's Trivia

Q: Retailers all across the United States are thankful to Anna Jarvis. Why?

A: Mother's Day! After her mother died, Anna Jarvis spent nine years and her fortune of $700,000 promoting the idea of honoring mothers. Congress finally passed the Mother's Day Proclamation in 1914. If it took that long for Congress to approve mothers, you can imagine how long it took for apple pie and baseball. The first Mother's Day observance took place during a church service in Grafton, West Virginia on May 10, 1908.

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