Father's Day dates back 110 years
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June 6, 2019
Father’s Day began when a young woman wanted to honor her dad.
In May of 1909, Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane, Wash., sat in church listening to a Mother’s Day sermon. She decided she wanted to designate a day for her dad, William Jackson Smart. Dodd’s mother had died in childbirth, and Doddâ...
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