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...Hill Cumorah, near Palmyra in upstate New York, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints last Week celebrated the 111th anniversary of the birth of Mormonism. According tc Mormon lore, on Cumorah, where now stands a large statue of the Angel Moroni, Founder Joseph Smith received from the angel the gold tablets on which the Book of Mormon was inscribed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Tithes and Security | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...called Narcissus, and two fine fragments showing a battle of Greeks and Amazons from a Roman sarcophagus of the third century A. D. In the remaining spaces are grouped several Attic grave reliefs and a number of heads, notably a wrestler, a Grecian matron, and a woman of Palmyra. Against the window is an urn, a third century lekythos...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 10/20/1937 | See Source »

...Boston. A very interesting collection of his essays and articles on literature, history, education. Enjoyed the long chapter entitled "The Centennial of Mormonism" about Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, Mormons are not necessarily polygamists etc. Joseph Smith found the golden tablets of the Angel Moroni on a hilltop in Palmyra, New York. When the Vagabond was little he went to Palmyra once, on Decoration Day, to see an auto-race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/13/1936 | See Source »

...Palmyra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 4, 1935 | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

After partaking in the ceremony, representatives from England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, Mexico, Rumania, and Jugoslavia went on a sight-seeing trip to avoid hearing a judge from Palmyra, N. Y. read for three hours from a list of amendments to the order's constitution. One amendment was a prohibition of smoking during the mystic rites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Masons | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

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