People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1894 — Our National Thanksgiving Day. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Our National Thanksgiving Day.

The national observance of Thanksgiving, day was brought about by a woman. Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, of Philadelphia, began about 1844 to urge, through the magazine of which she had charge, and by personal correspondence with the governors of states and with presidents of the United States, that Thanksgiving day should be made a national festival, and be held on the same day throughout the country. Her suggestion was adopted twenty years later by President Lincoln, and the observance of Thanksgiving by the nation has now become established.—United Presbyterian.

“Will you take it, or have it sent?” —Harper’s Bazar.