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Grover Cleveland: I do hereby designate and set apart Thursday, the 24th day of November next, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer.

On the recordOctober 24, 1887
I do hereby designate and set apart Thursday, the 24th day of November next, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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Proclamation 281—Thanksgiving Day, 1887

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