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National Thanksgiving day... signed in type by President Lincoln...
National Thanksgiving day... signed in type by President Lincoln...
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THE BRADFORD REPORTER, Towanda, Pennsylvania, October 22, 1863 The top half of the last column on page 1 is taken up with: "National Thanksgiving Day. This was the very first "official" national Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, issued by Lincoln as a result of recent editorials by Sarah J. Hale for Godey's Lady Book and the Boston Lady's Magazine in 1863. Thanksgiving was proclaimed by every president after Lincoln. The date was changed a couple of times, most recently by Franklin Roosevelt in order to create a longer Christmas shopping season.The Proclamation is identical to the text found on several Thanksgiving websites, and includes: "...They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who...has...remembered mercy...set apart & observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving & prayer and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens...and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation..." signed in type: Abraham Lincoln.
There is also some front page war-related news, but more on the inside pages.
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