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CALGARY HERALD reports: "Blood Indians camped, on the northern edge of Cardston, Alberta, Canada, pledging to pull all their money out ...

[J. Reuben Clark] [In conversation with Mark E. Petersen:] Then he told me the following: That he was very much disturbed about the work ...

[George F. Richards] Attended weekly council meeting in the Temple where I received the appointment to attend, alone, the Jordan Stake Co...

[Heber J. Grant] [Council meeting of all presidency, 6 apostles, stake presidents, Caine, Richards, King] The matter under discussion was...

[Wilford Woodruff] Our Encampment or the first division of it was called to pass through one of those Horrid scenes to day which are so m...

[Patriarchal Blessings] Patriarchal Blessing of Gad Sprague given by William Smith ... for thou art a descendant of the house of Caleb pa...

Thurs 30 Went to Nauvoo attend fast & Prayer Meeting for the Purpose of calling on the lord that he would pacify the Elements &c tha...

Yahoo webpage news story states: "The Mormon faith looks set to lose its 150-year-old dominance over US state of Utah by the year 2030 ...

[Leonard Arrington] I was talking with someone the other day about Church newspapers and periodicals. Apparently Brother [Boyd K.] Packer...

Hugh Nibley writes in a letter, "The two greatest nuisances in the Church are (a) those who think they know enough to disprove the clai...

[President Heber J. Grant] Spent the day at home in bed most of the time reading from the News and the Era. I had the pleasure of reading...

The attention of President Clark was called to a newspaper statement that Senator King had given notice that he intends to submit a resoluti...

[George F. Richards] I read Wm Jennings Bryans speech prepared to deliver in court at Dayton, Tenn. in defense of Religion and Christiani...

Bruce Redd McConkie, later a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, is born in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

[John Henry Smith] I spent five hours today at Mr. Warnacks talking with my Cousin Joseph Smith of the Reorganized Church. We canvassed a...

[William Clayton] We played till near 1 o clock chiefly with the violin. There was a first rate supper provided with plenty of wine and g...

Patriarchal Blessing of Samuel Swanner given by William Smith ... yet some foul and evil Spirit has watched thy path and laid a snare for th...

Patriarchal Blessing of Samuel B. Merrill given by William Smith ... it shall be given unto thee to be an avenger of the Blood of the Prophe...

The Church News feature article: "Church Brings Hope to Prison Inmates." [The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Mich...

Advertisement in THE LOGAN NATION for "all wool Garments," with illustration of two men and woman in one-piece underwear from neck...

Advertisement in The Logan Nation for "all wool Garments," with an illustration of two men and women in one-piece underwear from n...

This morning Elders Heber J. Grant and Horace G. Whitney came to the office for the purpose of conferring with President [Lorenzo] Snow on t...

Moses Thatcher dedicated the [Matthew] Cowley home in Preston, "That herein might be born prophets, seers, and revelators to honor God....

The Utah Supreme Court, in the matter of the estate of George Handley, deceased, rendered a decision to the effect that polygamous children ...

DESERET NEWS reports one of meetings where apostles preach United Order: "The vote to renew their covenants by baptism was very general...

Deseret News reports one of the meetings where the apostles preach the United Order: "The vote to renew their covenants by baptism was ...

DESERET NEWS reports that on his return to Salt Lake City yesterday, Milando Pratt says that he and Thomas Rich saw Bear Lake Monster from s...

Deseret News reports that on his return to Salt Lake City yesterday, Milando Pratt says that he and Thomas Rich (sons of apostles) saw the B...

[Wilford Woodruff] A Quorum of /70/ Apostles when united are Equal in authority to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. The Twelve Apos...

Jonathan Dunham, despondent about disobeying Joseph Smith's orders to rescue him from jail, commits suicide. Later disclosures indicate ...

Patriarchal Blessing of Rachael Sirrine given by William Smith ... I now seal upon thy head that is after the power of an endless life; a gl...

"There is a tradition among some of the descendants of Levi Hancock that Mrs. Hancock was sealed to Joseph Smith in Nauvoo and that one...

The LDS Church is "deeply troubled" and re-evaluates its scouting program, as the Boy Scouts of America permits openly gay scout l...

Revolutionary followers of Emiliano Zapata execute Mexican branch president Rafael Monroy and Vincente Morales, also LDS, after each tells Z...

The revolutionary followers of Emiliano Zapata execute Mexican branch president Rafael Monroy and Vincente Morales, also LDS, after each tel...

Mr. McCune sent for Brother Whitney this morning and informed him that during the last fourteen months he had paid out of his private purse ...

Presidet Young read me a letter from Bishop Maughn Stating that there had been a fracus with the Indian. The Brethren had taken a one eyed I...

SALT LAKE TRIBUNE article "Keeping members a challenge for LDS church" opens with, "The claim that Mormonism is the fastest-g...

Pres. Cannon also stated that Pres. J. F. Smith had been appointed by Pres. Snow to visit Mexico and investigate matters pertaining to the B...

Apostle Joseph F. Smith performs proxy sealing of Scotland's Queen Maude (or Matilda. b. 1104) as eternal wife to martyred prophet Josep...

Apostle Joseph F. Smith performs the proxy sealing of Scotland's Queen Maud (or Matilda, b. 1104) as an eternal wife to the martyred pro...

The Indians attacked Glenwood, Sevier Co., Utah, wounded a man and drove off nearly all the stock belonging to the settlement. [Jenson, A...

[David O. McKay] At 3 p.m. Pres. Smith, Pres. Clark, and I met with Ernest L. Wilkinson on the proposition of his being appointed preside...

[Heber J. Grant] We met Reed Smoot and his wife ... Reed is so thoroughly forgotten now. It is a case of 'gratitude is a lively sens...

[Heber J. Grant presidency] .... Whenever possible brethren should be ordained Elders before coming to the temple for endowments. ... Sis...

[Brigham Young] While I am making my remarks I sincerely request the attention of the congregation; I desire them to keep silence, let th...

One of Presidents Youngs waggons was turned over into the Big Cotton wood. It turned twice over with two women & several Children. One w...

[Patriarchal Blessings] Patriarchal Blessing of Vienna Jacques Shearer Smith(?) given by William Smith ... in peace thou shalt sit down i...

July 25 1845 Friday Joseph Woodruffs [b.18 Jul 1845 - d.12 Nov 1846] Blessing received under the Hands of his Father Wilford Woodruff ... I...

A Dr. John C. Bennett writes to the Saints stating his intention to move to Nauvoo and join the Saints. He will later become an influential ...

[Joseph Smith] "The remainder of this month, I was continually engaged in translating an alphabet of the Book of Abraham, and arrang...

Joseph Smith receives a revelation instructing missionaries to curse those who will not listen to them: "And in whatsoever place ye sha...

President Spencer W. Kimball dedicates the new twenty-eight-story Church Office Building in Salt Lake City, Utah.

LDS headquarters invites only prominent Republicans to Salt Lake City airport to greet U.S. president Richard M. Nixon who has asked to meet...

The LDS headquarters invites only prominent Republicans to the Salt Lake City airport to greet U.S. president Richard M. Nixon who has asked...

[Rudger Clawson] Pioneer Day. The ceremonies connected with the unveiling of the Brigham Young Statue at the head of Main Street took pla...

[Wilford Woodruff] This is the Aniversary of the Arival of the Pioneers into Salt Lake Valley. I Carried President Brigham Young in my Ca...

[Brigham Young] It has been observed here this morning that we are called fanatics. Bless me! That is nothing. Who has not been called a ...

[Wilford Woodruff] On the 24 & 25 of July I attended the Polosophical society in the social Hall & Herd till midnight the most th...

Thursday, "the Holly order" met at 4 p.m. at Willard Richards's "office" , and "the Quorum agreed to take no mo...