Today in Mormon History - Oct 15

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-- 185 years ago today - mid Oct 1836 --

Joseph Smith purchased a safe -- probably intended for bank use. (1)
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-- 180 years ago today - Oct 15, 1841 --

Without the Quincy Lodge's recomendation, Grand Master Jonas issues a dispensation authorizing the organization of a lodge in Nauvoo (perhaps to obtain Mormon votes) (2)
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-- 125 years ago today - Oct 15, 1896 --

Met in Temple Bro[ther] M. Thatcher came, presidency had sent to door keeper Bro[ther] Salmon not admit him hence he was bard out. He said to S. after all the thousands I have paid to erect this building can't enter, and several other things. Met at eleven Presidency more than an hour late. Then a document was formulated for news stating M. Thatcher was suspended & to not exercise any functions of priesthood. ... The feeling in relation to Bro[ther] Moses transgression is unanimous with Pres. & 12. How could he be admitted to Temple and to other things in church where they do not fellowship him and rightly too. (3)
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-- 55 years ago today - Oct 15, 1966 --

A Church News article that current non-U.S. LDS chapels "range in architectural style from modern tile and stucco structures in Managua, Nicaragua, to the native-built 'Choza' made from plam trunks, limgs, and coconut fronds." However, as part of the Correlation Program's drive for church-wide uniformity, headquarters soon requires that chapels throughout the world be modeled on those in Utah. In Latin America this makes LDS chapels visual symbols of the often-hated "gringo" power and wealth. (4)
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-- 25 years ago today - Oct 15, 1996 --

Boyd K. Packer, the Twelve's acting-president, tells a BYU devotional assembly that bishops should exercise strict control over LDS funerals because families are conducting funerals where "we hear about the deceased instead of the Atonement." The Deseret News notes that he speaks about "unwritten laws" of church conduct, but does not quote or paraphrase Apostle Packer's statements against the content of LDS funerals by grieving families. (4)
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1 - Dale W. Adams; BYU Studies Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 468-470, referenced in Broadhurst, Dale R., Mormon Chronology, http://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm
2 - Homer, Michael, 'Similarity of Priesthood in Masonry':The Relationship Between Freemasonry and Mormonism, Dialogue, Vol. 27, No. 3
3 - Diary of Apostle Brigham Young Jr., http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
4 - The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]