State of Connecticut
BY HIS EXCELLENCY
WILBUR L. CROSS
GOVERNOR
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TRTEMEMBERING the act of a little company of
R men and women on our New England shores
==Ewho, more than three hundred years ago, set
fººjapart a day after the harvest was gathered for
praise to the Lord God of Heaven, their upholder and
preserver through hardship and danger, and remembering
the great heritage of this Commonwealth in the courage,
steadfastness, and devotion of those who have gone before
us up and down its beautiful hills and fertile valleys, I
appoint Thursday, the twenty-sixth of November, as a
day of public
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calling upon the people of this State to give thanks to God
in their homes and churches for the yield of the soil and
the fruits of labor, for the gifts of peace and good fellow-
ship, and the many other blessings under His Providence;
urging those who have store of plenty to share it freely
with any who may be in suffering or in want, and urging
all to go forward in faith, hope, and charity, ever mindful
that “the greatest of these is charity.”
Given under my hand and seal of the State at the Capitol, in Hartford, this fifth day of
November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one and of the
independence of the United States the one hundred and fifty-sixth.
By His Excellency's Command:
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Secretary.







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