Show the z I 1 NOV 13 the following 4 I 1 g W was issued this afternoon by the president of the united states I 1 li rl it ia Is a very glad incident of tha the I 1 M marvelous ar prosperity which has crowned the year now drawing to a close that this helpful and reassuring touch has been felt by all our people it Itha has been abeen aa as wide as our country and BO so special that every home has felt its comforting influence it is too great too be the work of mans power and too particular to be the device dovice of hia his mind to god the cent and all wase who makes tha the labors of men to be fruitful remedies their loeles by bis bin grace and the measure of whose giving is as much beyond the thoughts of man aa as it Is beyond bis big deserts th the e praise an and d gratitude gr ati tude of the people of 0 I 1 this gaise g favored nation are justly due dae now therefore 1 I benjamin harrison president of the united states of Ameri americano cado hereby appoint thursday the 20 a day of november to be a day of joyful thanksgiving to god for the bounties of ills his providence tor for the peace in which we are permitted to enjoy them and for the preservation of those institutions of civil and religious liberty which lie he cave gave our fathers the wisdom to devise and establish and us the courage to preserve among the appropriate observances of the day are rest from to toil 11 worship in th the 0 pubic congregation the renewal of family ties iles about our american fi resides and thoughtful helpfulness towards those who the lack of body or of the spirit spirit in n whereof I 1 have hereunto bet set my hand and caused the seal of tho the united states to be affixed done dome at the city of washington this thirteenth day of november in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety one and of the independence of the united states the one hundred and sixteenth signed BENJAMIS BENJAMIN HARRISON by the pendent Pe ident lent james 0 blaine secretary of state |