Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1912-11-27
TURKEY IS LIKELY |.
TO INVADE EVERY |
HOME IN NEWARK
Thanksgiving Bird Is
Selling at 25 Cents
a Pound.
FREE BASKET DINNERS
AND REPASTS TO BE GIVEN
Church Services, Labor Parade
and General Festive Air
viii Mark Day. Il

In nearly every home Thanksgiving
will be celebrated tomorrow.
Ideal weather conditions for the
Thanksgiving holiday are predicted BY
Prof. Wiener, of the local Central
High School weather bureau. The
official forecast as given out by Mr..
Wiener is fair and colder weather for
tomorrow
Places of business throughout the
city and public buildings will be
closed and everybody will join n
making the day a holiday In the
truest sense of the word. Even ye
scribe, who only gets four holidays
in the year, viii sit down to his
Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow with
relish and join the merry tfrong In
helping to celebrate the holiday.
Ever since that memorable day.
when "a band of exiles moored their
bark on the wild New England shore"
and offered up their thanks for hav-
ing been delivered to a land OF free
dom, Thanksgiving Day has been
looked upon as a holiday.
Exercises viii be held in the various
churches in the morning, there will be
plenty of sport. both outdoors and in
doors. morning and afternoon, and
the pleasant information that turkeys
will sell for twenty-five cents
pound will gladden. the hearts of al
who are eagerly looking forward to
their Thanksgiving Day dinner. with
turkey. cranberry sauce. mince pie
and all the other palatable dishes
celebration of the day
That residents of this city would
be able TO purchase all the turkeys
they desire this afternoon for % cents
pound was the statement made -
one Of the largest poultry dealers IN
! the city. "A report that forty-two
cam Of Rorblers We're en- route to
! New York from Tennessee had nc1
/ been heard by local poultry .iealsrs
today. but if such is the case If viii
undoubtedly have the effect of re-
dueing the price of turkeys to almost
a song.
The Volunteers If America viii
provide Thanksgiving dinners to the
poor tomorrow. In the morning 100
families viii be supplied with a
basket dinner containing potatoes.
turnips. celery, meat, bread, coffee
of seven persons. AT o'clock a
warm turkey dinner will be served TO
200 men and boys at the Industrial
Home, 121 Walnut street.
schools Close Until Monday.
1 Exercises in commemoration of the
/ day will be held in the public schools
/ today. The schools win be closed to-
morrow and will not reopen until
Monday. The list of free lectures for
the people will begin tonight with
these: Paris. a World Capital" by
George n. Cross, Elliot Street School;
Germany, the Rhineland,' Glen Ar
mold Grove, Fourteenth Avenue
School; recital, "The Songs That
Touch the Heart" Apollo Male Quar-
I tet. Belmont Avenue: THE Vision OF
1 Sir LaunfaP' and "The Prisoner of
4 Chillon." T. Alexander Cairns. Lin
coin school. and Imperial and Mod
ern China Wallace H. Miner, North
Seventh Street.
But one postal delivery will be made
/ in this city and the connecting sta
bioiAS loAhoiIoN. I ne carriers WINDOW
will be open until noon, as will also
the inquiry division window The
general delivery window, from Z 80
a. m. until noon. The money order
and postal savings division will not be
opened for the entire day The inter-
nal revenue and collector Of GUS
toms Offices win be closed all day.
Fitting exercises in commemorative
of the day viii be observed in all
the churches Of the city of all de-
nominations tomorrow. There will be
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