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A Connecticut Thanksgiving
Proclamation
State of
Connecticut
By His Excellency WILBUR L. CROSS, Governor
Proclamation
Time out of mind at this turn of the
seasons when the hardy oak leaves rustle in the wind and the frost
gives a tang to the air and the dusk falls early and the friendly
evenings lengthen under the heel of Orion, it has seemed good to our
people to join together in praising the Creator and Preserver, who
has brought us by a way that we did not know to the end of another
year. In observance of this custom, I appoint Thursday, the
twenty-sixth of November, as a day of
Public Thanksgiving
for the blessings that have been our
common lot and have placed our beloved State with the favored
regions of earth -- for all the creature comforts: the yield of the
soil that has fed us and the richer yield from labor of every kind
that has sustained our lives -- and for all those things, as dear as
breath to the body, that quicken man's faith in his manhood, that
nourish and strengthen his spirit to do the great work still before
him: for the brotherly word and act; for honor held above price; for
steadfast courage and zeal in the long, long search after truth; for
liberty and for justice freely granted by each to his fellow and so
as freely enjoyed; and for the crowning glory and mercy of peace
upon our land; -- that we may humbly take heart of these blessings
as we gather once again with solemn and festive rites to keep our
Harvest Home.
Given
under my hand and seal of the State at the Capitol, in Hartford,
this twelfth day of November, in the year of our Lord one
thousand nine hundred and thirty six and of the independence of
the United States the one hundred and sixty-first.
Wilbur L. Cross
By His Excellency's Command:
C. John Satti Secretary
Dose
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