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The Tacoma Times, Washington, August 2, 1917
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The Tacoma Times, Washington, August 2, 1917
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, August 29, 1909
mans nephew (9 years old)
woman’s mother, father and a lodger
woman’s 21-year-old son by a former marriage, her sister and two children
a feeble minded girl, not related
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, July 25, 1909
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The Wichita Daily Eagle, Kansas, January 3, 1921
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The Coffeyville Weekly Journal, Kansas, April 20, 1894
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The Coffeyville Daily Journal, Kansas, December 16, 1899
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The Evening Sun, Hanover, Pennsylvania, December 17, 1947
The Decatur Herald, Illinois, January 7, 1921
Of course, she’s not a grand opera star, or the queen of the movies, but if you will stop to think you will discover that she is quite as wonderful. To you, anyway, she ought to be. She went down to the doorstep of death to bring you into the world; she watched and tended you when you were helpless; she loved and coddled you while everybody thought you were a nuisance; she always had a place for you when all other persons thought you were in the way.
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The Decatur Daily Review, Illinois, November 1, 1936
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The Decatur Daily Review, Illinois, July 26, 1936
A spoiled day for mother - did she or did she not turn off the gas under the stew before starting out?
The Star-Democrat, Easton, Maryland, March 29, 1940
These tender young things are leaving the farm forever
And mother lettuce says: “CHILDREN BEWARE OF COLD, DRY AIR!”
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Staunton Spectator, Virginia, November 24, 1868
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The Burlingame Enterprise, Kansas, September 11, 1913
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Evansville Press, Indiana, February 7, 1916
if a man doesn’t behave like a lover to his mother, he’s likely to be an unfeeling or grouchy husband.
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Headstone on grave near Cruger, Mississippi,
September 1938
Dear Mother
you are gone but not forgotten