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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1939
Page
12
Miss Blair Law notes in The Publishers Weekly May 6 that a list of books dealing with international relations has been prepared for Mother's Day by Carrie Chapman Catt. Mrs Catt serves as honorary chairman of the American Mothers Declaration committee as part of its program for international understanding.
Overview of the origin of Mother’s Day in the United States focusing on Miss Anna Jarvis’s inspiration and the growth of the observance through churches and Sunday schools. It details the 1911 designation by President Wilson, the carnation color symbolism for living and deceased mothers, and Wilson’s 1914 proclamation urging flag display and national observance on the second Sunday in May. The text also notes earlier state observances in Washington and Oklahoma and the formal establishment of the holiday by law and presidential proclamation.
Three-room modern apartment for rent on the downstairs level at 55S Park Avenue. For inquiries call 2119x.
In her will dated Feb 28 Pittsburgh widow Mrs Kate O Findley bequeaths $100000 to her son Paul B Findley if he fathers children. if not the estate passes to the American Bible Society at his death while he receives life income. Findley, 77, active in church groups, has been married 20 years with no children.Plans for summer work by the Baptist Young Women's Auxiliary were set at a Tuesday night meeting.
Chicago May 10 Dr Paul Schilder warned at the American Psychiatric Association that overdeveloped brains and modern dancing may signal mental decline. He cited medieval dancing epidemics as a forerunner of decadence and noted higher neurotic disease in Occidental Jewry compared with Negroes.
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