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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1933
Page
3
The article extols honoring mothers with carnations candy dinners and phone calls. It highlights stores offering Mother's Day boxes and practical gifts like sewing cabinets racks and hosiery. Also notes Mrs. F W Eastwood improving after illness and a North Side Cafe dinner special.
New York on May 11 urges Make Motherhood Safe for Mothers as a national Mother's Day drive. Women's clubs and civic groups plan events coast to coast to press for improved maternity care with Mrs. Franklin D Roosevelt as lead speaker in New York.
Sunday May 14 is Mother's Day with ministers urging devotion to mothers. The piece notes the busyness of 1933 makes small acts of love easy to forget, and urges readers to use ads and items suggested on the page to show appreciation to mothers.
Clubs and schools honor Mothers as Sunday Mother’s Day is observed county wide with music and services. Tomorrow afternoon the Mothers Tea from three to five in the junior high library invites mothers of students. Wellston Social Club plans a May 18 program at Mrs Ed Stoutner’s home as part of nationwide celebration.
Preston Wolf of the Wolf Floral Co. explains that carnations were the first official designated flower for Mother's Day, a custom observed nationwide after its origin in Washington, D.C. The piece notes the widespread purchase of carnations in early Mother’s Day observances.
A ladies organization in the city selected the white carnation to memorialize Mothers no longer living, while the colored carnation honors living Mothers by memory and tribute.
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