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Thanksgiving u a national ob-’ Bervance is considered an American institution. From earliest' days of grade school we hre taught that' the Pilgrim Fathers gave thanks at the end of their first year in the" new country. We assume thit the «onaal day of prayer And-thanksgiving-Was'continuous 'frdto'.that
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The first recorded Thanksgiving was the Hebrew Feast of the Tabernacles. -• s- *■ ■-f- '~i
The first anniversary of the deliverance which raised the" Beize of Leyden was-celebr*tedr’in-that - city,- October 3, 1575, as a day of - thanksgiving. • - / ^ ■ The ^ first natiofial En gli a h Thanksgiving was September 8,’ 1688, after therdefeat of the Spanish Armada.. There Were but two' English days of thanksgiving in . the past century. One was February 27, 1872, for the recovery of the Prince of Wales from illness, . and the other, June 21, 1887, for '(the Queen’s Jubilee. - ■
Our American Thanksgivihg— just as we were taught in grhmmar school—began at Plymouth in 1621, the-autumn after the arrival of the Pilgrims, when' a notable thanksgiving was held. Two years' afterward there iwaa another. The records say that “after the fruits and harvests were gathered,” Governor Bradford sent out a company for game |$g| Dish dainty materials for a feast.
The New England Thanksgiving dates from 1633, when the Massachusetts Bay Colony set apart a day for thanksgiving.
The first national Thanksgiving proclamations were made by Congress during the Revolutionary War. The first great American Thanksgiving Day was in 1784, for the declaration of peace. There was one more national thanksgiving in 1789, and no other until 1863, •when President Lincoln issued a national proclamation for a day of thanksgiving. Since that time the (President has issued an annual proclamation.
(The following article is taken from the Washington Post’s “District line,” pn the date of the present Thanksgiving Day.)
There seems to be a great deal of confusion as to the date of Thanksgiving this year. And a good part of it stems from the fact that many widely circulated calendars list the date as November 30. A brief review of the Thanksgiving mixup might be in order.
For many years the President annually issued a proclamation setting the fourth or final Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day, and the Governors of the various States called on the people to ob
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