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Illustration shows a disheveled Uncle Sam sitting at a messy table in a restaurant after a wild party where too much alcohol has been consumed, there are overturned chairs, and a man labeled "Capital" lies on the floor beneath one end of the table, an overturned bottle labeled "Overspeculation" spills contents labeled "Overissue of Securities", another bottle is labeled "Overbuilding", bottles on the floor are labeled "Waste" and "Overproduction", and a spill is labeled "Overestimation of Natural Resources"; wax from a candle on the table is labeled "Overconfidence" and a bottle next to Uncle Sam is labeled "Overcapitalization", lying on the floor at the other end of the table, among overturned chairs, is a man labeled "Labor", on the table above him is a spill labeled "Overspending" and a box of cigars labeled "Overbuying" is spilling its contents on the floor. In a broken mirror on the back wall are the words "National Vanity" and printed on a window is "Rationalism".
Caption: Uncle Sam "And this is Thanksgiving Day!"
Illus. in: Puck, v. 68, no. 1760 (1910 November 23), centerfold.
Copyright 1910 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.
In the United States Thanksgiving is observed on the fourth Thursday in November. In Canada - on the second Monday of October. The tradition of Thanksgiving started with the Pilgrims who settled at Plymouth, Massachusetts. They first held a celebration of their harvest in 1621. The first national Thanksgiving Day was proclaimed by President George Washington in 1789. It became a holiday in 1863 when Abraham Lincoln declared that the last Thursday in November should be celebrated as Thanksgiving. Since then it has been celebrated every year and is an official federal holiday that was moved to the fourth Thursday of November in 1941 by President Franklin Roosevelt. Many cities have large parades on Thanksgiving Day. Perhaps the largest and most famous parade is the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. Another popular way to spend the day is watching NFL football. The traditional food for the Thanksgiving meal includes a turkey, cranberry sauce, potatoes, sweet potato casserole, stuffing, vegetables, and pumpkin pie. Each year a live turkey is presented to the President of the United States who then "pardons" the turkey and it gets to live out its life on a farm.
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