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The origin of Mother’s Day could trace back to the early 1900s. A woman 1.______(name) Anna Jarvis started a campaign for an official holiday 2. _____(honor) mothers in 1905, the year her own mother died. The first larger-scale celebration of the holiday was in 1908, 3.______ Jarvis held a public memorial for her mother in her hometown of Grafton, West Virginia.
Over the next few years Jarvis pushed to have the holiday officially 4.______(recognize), and it was celebrated 5.__________(increase) in more and more states around the U.S. Finally, in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson made Mother’s Day 6.______ official holiday, to take place the second Sunday of May.
Anna Jarvis put Mother’s Day on the calendar as a day dedicated 7.___ expressing love and gratitude to mothers, acknowledging the sacrifices women make for their children. That’s 8.______ she was determined to keep “Mother’s” a singular possessive– mother’s rather than mothers’. Each family should celebrate 9._____ own mother, so that individual women across the country could feel the love, even in the midst of a broad ________ (celebrate) of motherhood.
