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In the following decades, numerous Mother’s Day efforts sprang up. One was in 1904, by the administrator of the University of Notre Dame, Frank Hering, After observing students sending penny postcards to their mothers, he proposed “setting aside one day in the year as a nationwide memorial to the memories of mothers and motherhood,” writing: “Throughout history the great men of the world have given their credit for their achievements to their mothers. The Holy Church recognizes this, as does Notre Dame.” The person who successfully made Mother’s Day into a nation...

Born out of grief to care better for children

In 1914 President Woodrow Wilson declared the second Sunday in the month of May to be Mother’s Day. In a proclamation he wrote, “It is a chance to publicly express love and reverence for the mothers of our country.” In that one stroke of a pen Mother’s Day became a National Holiday in the United States. Truly, I have to hand it to President Wilson. I mean, he had a lot of other things going on in this country. He was dealing with maintaining the neutrality between the Allies and Central Power after the outbreak of World War I. The suffragettes were marching down his heels ...

Listen • 6:02 Anna Jarvis grew up in Grafton, West Virginia in the late 1800s. She was one of 11 children but one of just four of the children who lived to adulthood. As the oldest daughter, she shared a close bond with her mother. Anna often wrote her mother letters and took care of her as she developed heart conditions. She died in 1905. Her mother’s death led Jarvis to devote her life to the holiday now recognized as International Mother’s Day. West Virginia Public Broadcasting's Duncan Slade spoke with Katharine Antolini, a history and gender studies professor at...

View Comments Incyte, a Wilmington pharmaceutical company, has agreed to pay $12.6 million to settle allegations it used an independent foundation to induce Medicare and Tricare patients to purchase the company's drugs. The Department of Justice alleged that from November 2011 through December 2014, Incyte used the nonprofit as a conduit to pay the copays for patients taking Jakafi, a drug approved in 2011 to treat myleofibrosis that has fueled the company's growth over the past decade.  In a statement, Incyte denied any wrongdoing and said the settlement is not an admission of liability...