Show OlD TALE RETOLD Origin of the American Th Thanks Thanks- Thanksgiving Thanks Thanksgiving giving Day Will Bear Repetition Annually as as Something of wh Which ch Every Every Citizen May Be Proud The ancient Thanksgiving did no not as some som have fancied skip down the ages to find its home In America In one way or another It seems to have always been observed Throughout Europe before the Reformation special days were set apart as days of or religious religious re reo re- re thanksgiving The American Thanksgiving day day is is traced back to the Pilgrims Shortly after atter the landing of or the Pil Pilgrims pil grins grims while sear searching for a suitable place In which to build their homes they one day came upon some deserted Indian huts In which they found some baskets filled with corn From From this supply they suc succeeded In saving e enough ough to plant their first years year's crop In the spring of 1021 1621 the seed corn com Was Was' sown and Its growing watched anxiously by the people of the little colony To their great Joy the harvest harvest har hag vest of ot the following October was a n bountiful one Governor Bradford ordered ordered ordered or or- dered a three days' days feast feat in celebration thereof Wild turkeys turkeys' geese ducks s sand and water fowl corn bread and vegetables vegetables vege vege- tables no doubt formed the chief constituents con conS of ot their feast not to speak of ot the five fie deer brought in by a tribe of friendly Indians This festival is supposed to be the first real Thanksgiving day from which which we date our celebration This Th s cel cele celebration bration although without doubt the orl origin ln of ot our national Thanksgiving day may be looked upon as merely a local observance being held by the Plymouth colony only They were the forerunners of ot less local oca celebrations ons in Massachusetts and gradually in other other oth er colonies for tor in 1630 a public Thanksgiving day was observed in Boston by the Bay colony and again in 1631 During the next fifty years yeas there were as many as 22 public Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Thanks Thanks- giving days appointed In ln Massachusetts usually In October or ber after the gathering In of ot the harvests harvests har hare vests or t to te celebrate some public benefit It did not become a re regular lar holiday until a long time afterward In 1789 Washington Issued the famous fa ta moua Thanksgiving Thank proclamation recommending recommending rec ree- Thursday November 2 26 1 as a national day to tobe to be devoted to prayer and Thanksgiving Washington's Washing tons ton's example was followed by other pr Presidents v ti vIn In 1863 President Lincoln LIncon appointed the fourth Thursday In November as the national Thanksgiving day Since then then the day has lias been observed annually annually an an- without Interruption |