Show f Jt c. c rs J z J r i r NAMES THANKSGIVING DAY DA y President Roos Roosevelt Issues a Proclamation to t the e People eople of the United States Fixing Thursday Nov 28 a as a National Holiday I WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Nov 2 Pr 2 President 2 Pi Roosevelt today issued his proclamation proclamation pro pro- Nov 28 of national fixing Thursday as a day thanksgiving It follows A Proclamation Proclamation The The season is nigh when according to the time time- hallowed custom of our people the president appoints a a day as as th the especial occasion for praise and und thanksgiving to God This thanksgiving finds the tho people still bowed with sorrow for foi the tho death of a great and good president We Ve mourn President McKinley because w we loved and honored him bim and the manner of his death should awaken in the breasts of our people a keen anxiety anxiety- and anda a resolute purpose not to be bo driven by any calamity from frym the tho path of strong orderly p popular pular liberty which as a nation we have thus far fai safely trod Yet in spite of this great disaster it is nevertheless true that no people on earth have such abundant int cause for foi thanksgiving as we have bave The past year in particular has been one of peace and plenty We have in things material material and and have havo been able to work for our oui own uplifting in in things intellectual and spiritual Let Le us rem remember remember m- m ber her that as much has been given us liS much will be expected from us and tb homage comes from the heart as well wen as as' from as-from from the lips and shows itself in deeds We Ve can best prove our oui thankfulness to the Almighty by the way in which on this earth eaith and at this time each ofus of ot ofus otus us does oes his bis duty to his fellow menNow men Now th therefore I Theodore Roosevelt president of the United States do hereby desi designate as a day of general t thanksgiving Th Thurs Thursday rs day the of this present November anI and do o reco recommend that throughout the land the people cease from their wonted occupations and at th their ir sever several l hom homes s and places and places of worship thank the giver e of ot all allgood all allgood allgood good for the countless b blessings s of our national life in witness whereof of I have hereunto set my hand band and caus caused d the sea seal of United Stares Sta to be affixed 0 i iI I Done D e at th the city o of Washington V this thiR second day of November November in inthe inthe inthe the year year of our oui Lord one ih nd nine hundred bundled r and md one and l of of the independence of the Un United ted States State the tho oils one h hundred and andt twenty Seal THEODORE ROOSEVELT ROOSEVELT Jo By the president ent JOHN HAY Secretary of State I i i |