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 2486 PROCLAMATIONS, 1931. THANKSGIVING DAY-1931 November 3,1931. BY THE PRESIDEN'l' OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION ThankS~Vlng Day. We approach the season when, according to custom jating from the Preamb. garnering of the first harvest by our forefathers in the New World, a day is set apart to give thanks even amid hardships to Almighty God for our t.emporal and spiritual blessings. It has become a hallowed tradition for the Chief Magistrate to proclaim annually a national day of thanksgiving. Our country has cause for gratitude to the Almighty. We have been widely blessed with abundant harvests. We have been spared from pestilence and calamities. Our institutions have served the people. Knowledge has multiplied and our lives are enriched with Its application. Education has advanced, the health of our people has increased. We have dwelt in peace with all men. The measure of passing adversity which has come upon us should deepen the spir- ituallife of thej>eople, quicken their sympathies and spint of sacrifice for others, and strengthen their courage. Many of our neighbors are in need from causes beyond their control and the compassion of the people throughout the nation should so assure their security over this winter that they too may have full cause to participate In this day_ of gratitude to the Alnnghty. be:h~rs, sTarmstroBot (talk):: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HERBERT HOOVER, President of the nated." United States of America, do hereby des~ate Thursday, November 26, 1931, as a National Day of Thanksgivm~, and do recommend that our people rest from their daily labors and m their homes and accus- tomed places of worship give devout thanks for the blessings which a merciful Father has bestowed upon us. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
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DONE at the City of Washington this 3d day of November, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-one, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America. the one hundred and fifty-sixth. By the President: HENRY L STIMSON Secretary oj State. HERBERT HOOVER [No. 1974] PETRIFIED FOREST NATIONAL MONUMENT--ARIZONA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION .P~trified Forest WHEREAS it appears that the wublic interest would be promoted
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hPrifidF . 1M' Ari~. ya gtoteet e orest atIona onument, m the State Preamble. of Arizona, certain adjoining lands for administrative purposes and the protection of a certain approach highway and additional features of scenic and scientific interest; Area enlarged. Vol. 34, p. 225. NOW, THEREFORE, I, HERBERT HOOVER, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section 2 of the act of Congress entitled" AN ACT For the preserva- tion of American antiquities," approved June 8, 1906 (34 Stat. 225),