nz Day. wh of this comm: to-day with a rvice at} eleven o'clock in the Community Church. Avenue Pt a football game at the rome between the Fourth and Sixth Marines this afternoon and various infor ities, may well be commemorated by all nationalities.
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s this is sadly true, but neverthe many things for every reader has to be tude should well will help the; Most of us in the past fe have learned appreciate wh e took more or less for liberty. Although many ffercd cruel lo material al, still there remain for resources in w them infinitely above ce, who in his turn tiful for the sh refugee camps which we make possible for him of the recent hostilities: saddening unemployment, losses everywhere, the alarming increase in the cost of living, one may still summon courage to thank Godi for the privilege of life and the determination to carry on.
For. mark you, the fist Thanksgiving Day observed in America was not to celebrate conquest, a sudden boom or an era of prosperity, for when Winthrop's fleet anchored in Boston Bay, after the difficult voyage from Yarmouth, there was little to be grateful for but deliverance from the perils of the deep. Even after the rigours of the first winter had been surmounted and a good harvest rewarded the sturdy pioneers for their rd work, there still much to wish for in the way of security and prosperity. But they the fruits of the land, they shot the wild turkey and met to ive thanks tot
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