The full text of President Coolidge's Thanksgiving Proclamation is given below:
The American people from their earliest days have observed the wise custom of acknowledging each year the bounties with which Divine Pro-Videnice has favoured them. In the beginning this acknowledgment was a voluntary return of thanks by the community for the fruitfalness of the harvest. "Though our mode of life has greatly changed this custom has always survived. It has made Thanksgiving Day not only one of the oldest but one of most characteristic observances of our country, On that day in home and church, in family and in public gathering the whole Nation has for
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