Thanksgiving, 1895

As The New York Times continues to digitize its archive, the newspaper occasionally calls our attention to a noteworthy or particularly apt article from the past. So it is with this 1895 New York Times article about Thanksgiving: Thanksgiving and Eating (PDF).

The lead article is about the history of the holiday. We find the second article even more interesting: it explains how sufficient turkeys were shipped across the country over 100 years ago . . . more or less successfully!