Wherefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, hereby designate Thursday, the twenty-seventh day of November next, for observance as a day of thanksgiving and prayer by my fellow-countrymen, inviting them to cease on that day from their ordinary tasks and to unite in their homes and in their several places of worship in ascribing praise and thanksgiving to God the Author of all blessings and the Master of our destinies.
Woodrow Wilson: “Wherefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, hereby designate Thursday, the twenty-seventh…”
On the recordNovember 4, 1919
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Proclamation 1539—Thanksgiving Day, 1919
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