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Show President Coolidge Issues Thanksgiving Proclamation In a proclamation just issued by President Calvin Coolidge, Thursday, November 2Gth, has been designated as Thanksgiving day. The proclamation proclama-tion issued by the President -is as follows: "By the President of the United States of America. A proclamation: "The season approaches when, in accordance with a long-established and respected custom, a day is set apart to give thanks to Almighty Gor for the manifold blessings which His gracious and benevolent providence has bestowed upon us as a nation and as individuals. "'We have been brought with safety and honor through another year, and, through the generosity of nature, He has blessed us with resources whose potentiality in wealth is almost incalculable; in-calculable; we are at 'peace at home and abroad; the public health is good; we have been undisturbed by pestilence pesti-lence or great catastrophic; our har-; i vests and our industries have been 'rich in productivity; our commerce I spreads over the whole world, and i labor has been well rewarded for its : remunerative. "As we have grown and prospered ! in material things, so also should we 1 arogress in moral and spiritual thimrs. We are a God-fearing people who should set ourselves against evil and strive for righteousness in living and observing the golden rule; we should, from our abundance, help and serve those less fortunately placed. We should bow in gratitude to God for His many favors. "Now, therefore, I, Calvin Coolidge president of the United States, do hereby set apart Thursday, the twenty-sixth day of November next, as a day of general thanksgiving and prayer, and I recommend that on that day the people shall cease from their work, and in their homes or in their accustomed places of worship, devoutly de-voutly give thanks to the Almighty j for the many and great blessings they have received, and to seek his guidance guid-ance that they may deserve a continuance con-tinuance of His favor. "In witness wherof, I have hereunto here-unto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. "Done at the city of Washington,! this twenty-sixth day of October, in i the year of our Lord one thousand! nine hundred and twenty-five, and ofj the independence of the United Slates of America the one hundred and fiftieth, fif-tieth, j "CALVIN COOLIDCE ' |