This picture is an unusually strong appeal for Thanksgiving. It tells, in brief, how a mother, whose boy has long wandered, inserts a personal in a newspaper asking him to come home. The effect upon those who read it is almost magical. One after another see the little personal and hurry home for Thanksgiving. The last one to see it is the one for whom it was intended. He has to beat his way on a freight train, but he arrives just as his father and mother are sitting down to their Thanksgiving dinner. He is warmly welcomed, but none of them realize what the mother accomplished in inserting the personal in the paper. There is a pathos about this picture which will go straight to the hearts of thousands. Indeed, it may have the same effect as the little personal. It may bring more than one wanderer back home for the Thanksgiving feast. If it does it will accomplish more good than even amusing the people. - The Moving Picture World, December 9, 1911
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