Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 25, 1900, Page 13
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THE ILLUSTRATED BEE PUBLISHED WEEKLY. NOVEMBER 25, 1900. NUMBER 76. - —— The First Thanksgiving Day HEN Governor Bradford issued the first Thanksgiving proclamation to our Pligrim fathers, on Novem- He simply announced that as they had ber 10, 1621, there was very little ceremony attending the act. just gathered abundant harvests of grain, and the cold weather had sent plenty of game to their forests, De- cember 13. 1621, would be observed throughout the Plymouth colony as a day of thanksgiving, and he accord- ingly appointed four men 10 “go fowling, that they might, after & more special manner, rejoice together.” Photo by Louls R. Bostwick.