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Thanksgiving Day is peculiarly an American festival. For generations the
American people have observed it. The old New England Thanksgiving Day dates
back, we are told, to 1622; and we still delight in it. It is a joyous home-coming for
the scattered members of the family. They gather under the old roof-tree to feast
and make merry. We go to church and give thanks to Almighty God for all his blessings
and mercies.
Today, we as a nation have to face not only the problem of preserving our own
sacred liberties, but of making the world a safe place to live in for the small nation as
well as the great. We have gone to war for this righteous purpose. It is a purpose
worthy of our history and our best traditions. And may we not be thankful for the
sturdy manhood and the splendid womanhood that are ready to make the supreme
sacrifice for the sake of human rights and human freedom?
May God strengthen our arm and increase our courage, and may He keep us
constant and steadfast until the victory shall be won.
Therefore, I, ALBERT E. SLEEPER, Governor of the State of Michigan, do
hereby join the President of the United States in designating “Thursday, the twenty-
ninth day of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Prayer.”
Given under my hand and the Great Seal of
the State, this fifteenth day of November,
in the year of our Lord one thousand nine
hundred and seventeen, and of the Common-
wealth the eighty-first.
Governor.
By the Governor:
Secretary of State.


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