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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Published every Saturday Afternoon. 
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Entered as second-class matter May 23, 1904, at the 
post-office at Beverly, Mass., under the Act of Congress 
of March 3, 1879. 
Telephones: Manchester 9-13, Beverly 1008-4. 
SATURDAY, NOV. 19, 1904. 
Thanksgiving, 
Next Thursday, five days hence, 
Thanksgiving, with all its pleasant and 
endearing associations, will be with 
us.. No other day is looked forward 
to with so much pleasure by both 
young andold. It isthe day of home- 
coming, when children, parents and 
grandparents gather in one big re- 
union and sit around the family table. 
Theodore Roosevelt, the President 
of the United States, in his annual 
‘Thanksgiving proclamation, says : 
A PROCLAMATION. 
It has pleased Almighty God to bring the 
‘American people in safety and honor through 
another year, and, in accordance with the 
long unbroken custom handed down to us 
by out forefathers, the time has come when 
a special day shall be set apart in which to 
thank Him who holds all nations in the 
hollow of His hand for the mercies thus 
vouchsafed to us. During the century and 
a quarter of our national life we as a people 
have been blessed beyond all others, and for 
this we owe humble and heartfelt thanks to 
the author of all blessings. The year that 
has closed has been one of peace within our 
own borders, as well as between us and all 
other nations. The harvests have been 
abundant, and those who work, whether with 
hand or brain, are prospering greatly. Re- 
ward has waited upon honest effort. We 
have been enabled to do our duty to our- 
selves and to others. Never has there been 
a time when religious and charitable effort 
has been more evident. Much has been 
given to us and much will be expected from 
us. 
We speak of what has been done by this 
nation in no spirit of boastfulness or vain- 
glory, but with full and reverent realization 
that our strength is as nothing unless we 
are helped from above. Hitherto we have 
been given the heart and the strength to do 
the tasks allotted to us as they severally 
arose. We are thankful for all that has been 
done for us in the past, and we pray that in 
the future we may be strengthened in the un- 
ending struggle to do our duty fearlessly and 
honestly, with charity and good will, with re- 
spect for ourselves and love to our fellow 
men. In this great republic the effort to 
combine national strength with personal free- 
dom is being tried on a scale more gigantic 
than ever before in the world’s history. Our 
success will mean much not only for our- 
selves but for the future of all mankind; and 
every man or woman in our land should feel 
the grave responsibility resting upon him or 
her, for in the last analysis this success must 
depend upon the high average of our individu- 
al citizenship, upon the Way in which each of 
us does his duty by himself and his neighbor. 
Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, 
president of the United States, do hereby 
appoint and set apart Thursday, the 24th of 
this November, to be observed as a day of 
festival and thanksgiving by all the people of 
the United States at home or abroad, and do 
‘recommend that on that day they cease from 
their ordinary occupations and gather in 
their several places of worship, or in their 
homes, devoutedly to give thanks unto al- 
mighty God for the benefits he has conferred 
upon us as individuals and as a nation, and 
to beseech him that in the future his divine 
favor may be continued to us. 
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my 
hand and caused the seal of the United 
States to be affixed. 
Done at the city of Washington this first 
day of November, in the year of our Lord 
one thousand nine hundred and four, and of 
the independence of the United States the 
one hundred and twenty-ninth. 
Theodore Roosevelt. 
By the President: 
John Hay, Secretary of State. 
Whisperings, 
I am toldthat besides Deacon A. E. 
Low, whom I referred to last week as 
voting for General Harrison in 1840, 
and aiding in the big cake-bake cele- 
bration in Dodge’s hall here following 
his election to the presidency, there 
are two other men still living in Man- 
chester who were participants in these 
occasions. These men are William 
H. Tappan, who is 83 years old, and 
Delucena L. Bingham, who celebrated 
his 90th birthday last week. Singu- 
larly enough all of these met at Mr. 
Bingham’s last week. 
* * * * 
It was a rather amusing sight one 
day last week to see the old steam 
roller being towed down from Harbor 
street, where it lost a cylinder-head 
several weeks ago, to the stone-crush- 
ing plant. We have all seen one 
automobile with another poor,wounded 
car in tow, but to see one of these big 
15-ton “‘autos”’ being towed through 
the streets at a snail pace by one of 
its own specie is a striking sight. 
However, the tandem worked effec- 
tively, and I see the roller is now 
stationed in its stall at the plant wait- 
ing fora new head to come from some- 
where out in Ohio. 
* * * * 
A prominent member of the Beverly 
Republican club is now minus his 
moustache, owing to the fact that he 
bet Bates would defeat Douglas for 
Governor. The ‘ gang” at the club 
rooms, however, say it was a good 
thing he lost, for it has improved his 
looks 50 per cent. — Salem News. 
That’s nothing. A Manchester man 
said he would wear rubber boots for a 
year if Douglas was elected ; but we 
haven’t seen the rubber boots yet. 
Perhaps he’s wearing a pair of Doug- 
las shoes instead. 
* * * * 
Talk about football! I wish all of 
our readers could have been in Man- 
chester Wednesday afternoon and 
seen the game in progress on the 
Common about 3 o’clock. They would 
have been more interested than in 
watching the brawny Harvard and 
Yale boys in their annual contest at 
New Haven today. It wasn’t a real 
game, but just kicking the ball—the 
kind they used to play out in the field 
Thanksgiving day, when Deacon Low 
and Mr. Bingham were boys  Let’s 
see! Who were-the players? There 
was D.L. Bingham, who last week 
observed his 90th birthday. ‘The first 
time Mr. Bingham tried the ball 
refused to leave the earth, but on the 
second attempt the pigskin shot forth 
and hovered ’mid the branches of the 
elm tree near by. Then there was 
Oliver T. Roberts. Mr. Roberts’ age 
isn’t so much against him as other 
things, yet the ball darted forth with 
considerable speed when it connected 
with those No. 10’s. And then there 
was Loomis — C. T. Loomis, the jew- 
eler. Who'd ever thought Loomis 
could kick a football when they saw 
him going around a year or two ago 
with a pair of crutches. Several others 
had a kick at that poor pigskin, and 
among them I noticed one of our faire 
young Belles. 
* * * * 
My friend, Leon Carter, told me 
Wednesday noon he felt quite like a 
married man after reading a full ac- 
count of his marriage in a Wednesday 
morning paper, despite the fact he 
would not be married till Wednesday 
night. And after reading it in the 
Gloucester papers and Beverly Times 
in the afternoon, he didn’t know as 
there was any need of going through 
the ceremony at all. Some reporter 
must have been a little off in his dates, 
but Leon and his fair young bride 
took the error lightly. 
Change of Address. 
Subscribers who are leaving the 
Shore will confer a great favor upon 
the proprietors of the Breeze tf they 
well send in their winter address,either 
to our Manchester or to our Beverly 
office, as soon as they know when they 
are to leave. 
