Park Record | 1940-08-08 | Page 3 | Thanksgiving Day Revival

Thanksgiving Day Revival National revival of Thanksgiving day by Abraham Lincoln is said to tobe he be due to the activities of ot Sarah Josepha Hale editor of ot the popular womans woman's magazine called Godey's Ladies Book For 20 years she had been untiring In her efforts to stirn- stirn stimulate interest and public desire for 3 nationwide Thanksgiving day to be ba on the same day every year jear Her magazine writings on the tho subject won President Lincoln's sympathetic support and his proc- proc proclamation in 1864 was a direct re re- result cult sult of her urgent solicitations