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On the recordOctober 29, 1878
Exuberant harvests, productive mines, ample crops of the staples of trade and manufactures, have enriched the country.
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Rutherford B. Hayes
Republican · Ohio

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Proclamation 241—Thanksgiving Day, 1878

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