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(Special Dispatch to the Evening Telegram.) A CHANGE IN THE THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION. HARRISBURG, Nov. 10th-An important change has been made in the Thanksgiving proclamation. In the last paragraph the words “Christian Common- wealth” have been altered to read: “A Commonwealth of freemen.” This change has been made because of animadversions made by prominent Israelites. Gov. Hoyt says he used the 'word “Christian” in the sense of “civilized” and not particularly in a religzbus sense. -Vol. 20, American Jewish Historical Society “Documents regarding the Thanksgiving Proclama- tion of Gov. Hoyt, of Pennsylvania (1880)”
