https://www.cityofsmoke.com New York in History and Anecdote Sat, 26 Dec 2015 02:30:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1290 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1290#respond Mon, 16 Feb 2015 22:11:28 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=1290 Some claim that Mother's Day was invented by Frank E. Hering, a district governor of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, who first called for Mother's Day in a 1904 speech in Indianapolis on February 7, 1904. Others hold that Anna M. Jarvis, a wealthy Philadelphia spinster, thought it up. Yet if any man fathered Mother's Day, he is the Hon. James Thomas "Cotton Tom" Heflin of Alabama, who as a ]]> https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1290/feed 0