Thanksgiving 1911: A message from Taft, services at St. Luke's

An ad from the November 29, 1911, edition of the Woodland Daily Democrat. The Vogue, proprietors Griggs and Bush, was located "one half block west of the post office" according to their grand opening ads in March, 1903. The 1906 Sanborn Insurance Map shows the post office was located at the northeast corner of Main and Second... thus placing The Vogue at about 617 Main, the current location of The House Dresser. That address, the "Jackson-Armfield Building," has a restored billboard on its west wall advertising Levi's sold at The Vogue.

Excerpt from the American Presidency Project:

Proclamation 1172 - Thanksgiving Day, 1911
By William Howard Taft, President of the United States of America

Our country has been signally favored in many ways. The round of the seasons has brought rich harvests. Our industries have thrived far beyond our domestic needs; the productions of our labor are daily finding enlarged markets abroad. We have been free from the curses of pestilence, of famine and of war. Our national councils have furthered the cause of peace in other lands, and the spirit of benevolence has brought us into closer touch with other peoples, to the strengthening of the bonds of fellowship and good will that link us to our comrades in the universal brotherhood of nations. Strong in the sense of our own rights and inspired by as strong a sense of the rights of others, we live in peace and harmony with the world.

Read the rest at WoodlandRecord.com.