State of Connecticut BY HIS EXCELLENCY JOHN H. TRUMBULL GOVERNOR A # rur lantatin |EN generations of our forefathers have cherished the custom of an annual Thanksgiving. Not only is the day a landmark in our New England history; it has come to be the national ill festival of Home-coming and Harvest; a bond of family loyalty - * and affection; a spur to generosity toward the unfortunate; and finally, and not least, an opportunity for especial gratitude to the Divine Providence to whose bounty we owe all of the good things of life. There is small wonder that we hold fast to so noble a tradition. The year just past has given us particular occasion for thankful- ness. Our country is at peace with the world. More than that, we have been conspicuously successful in a constructive effort to stabilize that peace, and to carry to other lands the new message of tolerance and good will among the nations. The fundamental economic condition of the country has never been more sound, and the unexampled prosperity of the last few years may be expected to continue. As our standards of living are raised, our national TCSOUITCCS keep pace, and these have been conserved and developed with care and intelligence. That we may appropriately acknowledge these and the many other blessings of the year, I hereby designate Thursday, the twenty-eighth day of November next, as a day of Chaukagiuing and I urge all of the people of the State to gather at that time at their several churches, that they may most effectively render their Thanksgiving, and may give to all men the worthy example of a public recognition of the mercies of Almighty God. Given under my hand and seal of the State at the Capitol, in Hartford, this fourteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and fifty-fourth. By His Excellency's Command: QWZZea...:36.22. Secretary. b (Cb | prºuzºv • oº ______ …… ~~~~--~--~--~~~~ ~~ ~) —~~~~ TOE 2606 88840949$$ ſuſſi ~ ___-----…--~~~~*~*~*~*~*_________-------~--~~~~__ ______--~~~~--~~~~------~~~~ ~~~~