UNIV. OF MICH.
NOV 21 1906
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CURTIS GU Jr.
60 VERNOR:
The venerable records of Plymouth tell us that after the first harvest Governor Bradford sent four men
into the wilderness for meat, that the struggling colonists might after a more special manner rejoice together.
In accordance with the beautiful and reverent custom, once of Massachusetts only, now of the
United States, I, therefore, with the advice and consent of the Honorable Council, appoint Thursday,
November Twenty-ninth, as a day of Thanksgiving to the Great Power that has made this people great.
Let us give thanks for the swift and swelling improvement in the comfort of the people, for the
ever-increasing care for those whose toil builds up our industries and our citizenship; for the tender-
ness that is lifting the suffering and the mentally distraught from the depths of pain and distress up to
the heights of health and understanding; for the brotherhood that daily impels us to seek out and
cherish what is good in our neighbor; for the broader patriotism that is teaching us the new and true
meaning of American Citizenship. -
In the happy greetings of home and kindred on this day of joyous memory, let us be not unmind-
ful that this Commonwealth was founded by those whose serious deliberation for the public good was
ever undertaken with the invocation – “In the Name of God, Amen.”
Given at the Council Chamber this the thirty-first day of October, in the year of our Lord one
thousand nine hundred and six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one
hundred and thirty-first.
- - - - CURTIS GUILD, Jr.
By Aſis Eccel/ency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Council.
WILLIAM M. OLIN,
SECRETARY.
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