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Fragmented Idaho letter on polygamy and church sanction
A letter from Charles Mostyn Owen to J Ellen Foster discusses Mormon polygamy in Idaho, naming John A. Stacks and Margaret Stucki, Clara Spori, and Apostle Mathias Cowley. It questions church sanction, cites testimony in the Smoot investigation, and lists district land descriptions. The text includes a public health ad fragment and a drug ad.
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Salt
Boise
Lake
Charles Mostyn
J. Ellen Poster
Utah
J. Ellen Foster
Core Republican Committee
Tda
Deseret News
Idaho
John A. Stacks
Bear Lake County
Margaret Stucki
Clara Spori
Stucki
Charles F. Merrill
Smoot
Annie Stoddard
Bagley
Cowley
Stucks
John A. Bagley
Lydia Austin
Foster
Preston
Mormon Church
Mathias F. Cowley
Canada
Charles Mostyn Owen