Seventy Third Conference Opens With Large LDS Attendance
The seventy third semi annual conference of the Latter day Saints opened on Saturday with a prayerful hymn and a full Tabernacle. President Joseph J. Smith spoke of gratitude for prosperity. morning and afternoon sessions featured remarks from mission presidents on California Mexico and Japan, calls to unity, and urging tithing and debt reduction.
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Joseph J. Smith
God
Higgs
Nephi
Smith
Mich
Rich
New York
Hooper Young
Joseph Robinson
Callatfornia
California
EK. H. Nye
Southern States
South
Meltne
Colorado
Apostle Dyrnun Smith
Apostle Smith
Joseph Smith
Duttin
Southern States Mission
Southwest
Woodruff
Northeast
Nephi Pratt
Northwest Mission
John Henry Smith
Hancock County
Illinois
Reed Smoot criticizes Saints for neglecting fast offerings
Apostle Reed Smoot, the morning session speaker, reproached the Saints for failing to pay their fast offerings. He noted that in many areas there are no poor, yet some people believe these offerings are no longer required, which he argued is not true.
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Mexico
Anthony W. Ivins
Sandwich Islands
Samuel &. Woolley
Allen
Alberta
Wasatch
William H. Smart
Abraham
Woodruff
Louis A. Nelseh
Rodger Clawson
William T. Jack
Cassin
Samuel Lennion
Uintah
Mathias Cowley
Church
Apostle Reed Smoot
Third Day Session Urges Saints to Tithing Education and Readiness
The conference closing day session urged Saints to faithfully pay tithing, avoid debt and mortgages, and stay steadfast in religious principles as Christ’s return nears. It emphasized sending children to school, opposing church reliance on ignorance, and teaching Mormon values while pursuing education. Speakers included M W Merrill and D K Udall, with Joseph F Smith affirmed as prophet.
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St John’s
Arizona
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New Big Horn
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Alpine
Uriah Jones
Parowan
C. D. White
Seaver
Joseph F. Smith
Worldwide political and social turmoil cited in brief items
The report aggregates diverse notes from 1900s era sources. It mentions rural free delivery estimates, a New York lead compound plan, emigration curbs, Porto Rico school openings, unions in St. Paul, Bulgarian imprisonments, Albanian arrests in Constantinople, riot arrests in Pennsylvania, elevator injuries in Massachusetts, wheat exports, a Sydney recruiting schooner’s loss, revolutionary movements in several Latin regions, Zola autopsy results, Amoy fire, Peruvian politics, Turkish ransom, cattle trade shifts, weekly US business totals, a Sydney steamer’s loss, a non union man struck by a trolley, disputes in Spain, coal and fuel outlooks, Russian and Ottoman discussions, Mexican death penalties changes, and a Hong Kong fire.
Northwest Notes Highlights A Turbulent West
A roundup of western events with notable figures and incidents. Snow falls in Denver on October 1. Miners' strike benefit nets about $3,000. A $17,000 gold nugget found near Baker City. Train collisions kill two and destroy cars near Ark City. Fatalities include Helena hotel guest Patrick Kelly and a young man struck by a railroad train near Cheyenne. Gambling laws enforced in Cheyenne. Coroner links Union Pacific wreck at Rawlins to gross carelessness. Oregon drought affects hop yields. local revenue hopes rise from new regulations. Riot in Fenelon leaves J. C Sullivan wounded. Electric shock kills Kirk at Rawlins lighthouse. Sunrise ore shipments to Pueblo boosted. daily tonnage rises. A Polish family misplaces funds in a straw bank burned as waste.
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New York Chief Honored leading Fire Engineers president
Edward F. Croker of the New York fire department has been elected president of the International Society of Fire Engineers in New York. The longtime firefighter joined the department in 1884 and rose to chief after Chief Proviner’s retirement. Renowned for bravery, he has saved several lives.
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Internnational President Fire Engineers
New York Fire Department
International Societe
New York
Jimong
Croker
Protiner
Sister of Great Singer Vera Lawton Star in New York Play
Vera von Derenters known as Miss von Derenberg, sister of Mme Melba, and aunt to Vera Lawton, Lucien Breval, and Mella, hails from Brisets with Melba born in Melbourne during her mother’s visit. The family ties connect to Parepa Rosa. the half sister note remains unclear.
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Mme. Melba
Growth of Oklahoma Town Thomas Oklahoma Thrives
Thomas Oklahoma, founded three weeks ago, has grown to about 1000 inhabitants. The first weekly Thomas Tribune notes Frisco line extension from Washita to the town and a local bank with deposits of 20000. The town sits in fertile, well watered country five and one half miles from the South Canadian river, with the nearest town 100 miles away.
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Kansas City Star
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