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The Marion Daily Mirror
Marion, Marion County, Ohio
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On Nov. 29 in New York, thousands of the poor enjoyed Thanksgiving dinners at institutions and charities. Churches held services where ministers critiqued public issues, praised Roosevelt, and nominated Gov. Hughes for 1908 presidency.
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Thousands of the City's Poor Feasted—Religious Services in All the Churches.
New York, Nov. 29.—If there was one in all New York's millions who went hungry Thursday it was his or her own fault. One's financial status had nothing to do with the matter; for good dinners might be had for the asking at scores of places where the wards of the state and the city are housed, and at the homes of New York's many charitable institutions. There were the customary dinners at prisons and missions and feasts in halls, given by private benefaction to special classes of guests. Thus thousands had cause to be thankful, though there was no apparent increase in the number of those who laid claim to this form of charity.
There were religious observances in all the churches and many of the ministers touched upon topics of public interest. These took a wide range, several of the speakers criticizing the action of the president in causing a change to be made in the motto on the new gold coins; others making mention of the agitation respecting Christmas exercises in schools or rhetorically assailing the "money power" to the glorification of President Roosevelt, and one, Dr. Robert MacArthur, of Calvary Baptist church, nominating Gov. Hughes, of New York, as a candidate for the presidency in 1908.
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New York
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Nov. 29
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thousands of the city's poor feasted; no apparent increase in claims to charity; religious services held with discussions on public topics.
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Thousands of New York's poor received dinners at state and city institutions, prisons, missions, and halls provided by private benefaction. Religious observances occurred in all churches, with ministers addressing public interests including criticism of the president's change to the gold coins motto, agitation over Christmas exercises in schools, assaults on the money power, glorification of President Roosevelt, and nomination of Gov. Hughes for the 1908 presidency by Dr. Robert MacArthur of Calvary Baptist church.