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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1906
Page
2
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The piece notes John Hay as secretary of state delivering a Thanksgiving address in London in 1897. About three hundred Americans dined at the Hotel Cecil with a toast to ladies by a London deacon, responded by actress Genevieve Ward. Hay lauded English language and U S unity, praised the pumpkin pie history, and defended Turkey as emblem over ironclads. Nine years after the Boston day, this marks the second Thanksgiving with Hay's chair vacant.
Poet Walter laments modern fare and recalls a farm friend Sir Pumpkin in a rustic, affectionate tribute. The speaker imagines a ceremonial presentation, rejects refined music, and longs for simple country companionship amid Thanksgiving nostalgia.
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