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The Dark Money Behind Mother's Day

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

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Miss Annamarie Jarvis' Mother's Day Salad

The grand crystal tea room in Philadelphia was a local institution in the 1920s and 30s. On Mother's Day, Miss Annamarie Jarvis went there to celebrate with her mother. The server brought out an elegantly presented salad but she dumped it on the floor. Tim Harford: It's never easy to be a Mother, but for 19th century mothers, it was brutal.

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