Spirit Pouch (42 page)

Kent Larsen,
News about Mormons, Mormonism, and the LDS Church,
http://www.mormonstoday.com/010525/P2NRandall01.shtml

[54]
“
Father sold our house
and lot for $125 (one hundred and twenty-five dollars), which was worth five hundred dollars, for they thought that he had to sell, and they would not buy only on a big discount.”

-Journal of William Henry Cottle

[55]
  
Commands to drive a wagon team
are “haw” to turn left, “gee” to turn right, “whoa” to stop, and a “clucking” sound to start going.

Susanne Malloy,
Get your Horse Moving
, http://ezinearticles.com/?Get-your-Horse-Moving&id=1566680

[56]
  In 1948, a Los Angeles building inspector named Walter Frederick Morrison and his partner Warren Franscioni invented a plastic version of the
Frisbie
that could fly farther and with better accuracy than a tin pie plate.  His partnership with Warren Franscioni, ended before their product had achieved any real success.

Morrison (after his split with Franscioni) produced a plastic Frisbie called the Pluto Platter, to cash in on the growing popularity of UFOs with the American public.  The Pluto Platter has become the basic design for all Frisbies.  The outer third of the Frisbie disc is called the 'Morrison Slope', listed in the patent.  Rich Knerr and A.K. 'Spud' Melin were the owners of a new toy company called 'Wham-O'.  The pair first saw Morrison's Pluto Platter in late 1955.  They liked what they saw and convinced Morrison to sell them the rights to his design.  With a deal signed, Wham-O began production (1/13/1957) of more Pluto Platters.  The next year, the original Frisbie Baking Company shut down and coincidentally Fred Morrison was awarded a patent (Design patent 183,626) for his flying disc.  Morrison received over one million dollars in royalties for his invention.

The word 'Frisbee' is pronounced the same as the word 'Frisbie'.  Rich Knerr (Wham-O) was in search of a catchy new name to help increase sales.  After hearing about the original use of the terms 'Frisbie' and 'Frisbie-ing', he borrowed from the two words to create the registered trademark Frisbee ®.  Sales soared for the toy, due to Wham-O's clever marketing of Frisbee playing as a new sport.  In 1964, the first professional model went on sale.  Ed Headrick was the inventor at Wham-O who patented Wham-O's designs for the modern frisbee (U.S. patent 3,359,678).  Ed Headrick's Frisbee, with its band of raised ridges called the Rings of Headrick, had stabilized flight as opposed to the wobbly flight of its predecessor the Pluto Platter.

In 1967, high school students in Maplewood, New Jersey, invented Ultimate Frisbee, a recognized sport that is a cross between football, soccer and basketball.

Mary Bellis,
The History of the Frisbee,
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa980218.htm

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A gyroscope
is a symmetrical mass, usually a wheel, mounted so that it can spin about an axis in any direction.  When spinning, the gyroscope has special properties.  Many spinning objects exhibit some of these properties; the rotation of the earth about its axis gives it the properties of a huge gyroscope.  Once a gyroscope starts to spin, it will resist changes in the orientation of its spin axis.  For example, a spinning top resists toppling over, thus keeping its spin axis vertical.  If a torque, or twisting force, is applied to the spin axis, the axis will not turn in the direction of the torque, but will instead move in a direction perpendicular to it.  This motion is called precession. The wobbling motion of a spinning top is a simple example of precession.  The torque that causes the wobbling is the weight of the top acting about its tapering point.  The modern gyroscope was developed in the first half of the 19th century by the French physicist Jean B. L. Foucault, and its first notable use was in a visual demonstration of the earth's rotation.  In the second half of the 19th century, with the invention of the electrically driven rotor, its uses multiplied.  It became possible to rotate the gyroscope's wheel at desired speeds without interfering with the precession.  Large gyroscopes are used in ship stabilizers to counteract rolling.  The gyroscope is the nucleus of most automatic steering systems, such as those used in airplanes, missiles, and torpedoes.  It is also used in the gyrocompass, a directional instrument used on ships.  Unaffected by magnetic variations, its spinning axis, when brought in line with the north-south axis of the earth, provides an accurate line of reference for navigation.

Gyroscope,
http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Gyroscopic+Motion

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Mormon Tag
: Youth in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints often play this form of tag.  In this game the players pair up by locking elbows.  One person is “It.”  One other person tries to get away.  When the person being chased gets tired, he can lock elbows with any person that is paired up and that person’s partner (that is locked onto his other arm) then has to run away or get tagged.

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Stick Pull
:  Two people sit on a mat facing each other with their hands holding onto a horizontal stick and with their feet touching.  One person’s hands are placed on the inside, the other person’s hands on the outside.  The hand position is decided by a flip of a coin.  On “GO” the people pull on the stick trying to unseat each other, until one is pulled to his feet or their feet break contact and one is hurled off the mat.

“Pastimes,” 
Historic Nauvoo
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints,

(2009)

[60]
The Book of Mormon
, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1830, “Faith”,
Ether chapter 12

[61]
The Book of Mormon
, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1830, Ether 12:13

[62]
The Book of Mormon
, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1830, Moroni 10:4-5

[63]
The Book of Mormon
, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1830, Alma, chapter 14

[64]
 
The streets
are relatively wide, at the direction of Brigham Young, who wanted them wide enough that a wagon team could turn around without "resorting to profanity."

William E. Hill (1996).
The Mormon Trail: yesterday and today
. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press. ISBN 0-87421-202-2, p. 26

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt Lake City, Layout

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   The
Territory of Dakota
was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1861, until November 2, 1889.

Upon creation, Dakota Territory included much of present-day Montana and Wyoming; by 1868, creation of new territories reduced Dakota Territory to the present boundaries of the Dakotas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_Territory

[66]
Bumblebee
– [a marble] mostly all yellow with two black strips on each side.

Marble (Toy)
, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marble_(toy)

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  A "
taw
" or "shooter" is used to shoot with, and "ducks" are marbles to be shot at

Marble (Toy)
, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marble_(toy)

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Bricks
are stacked in a herring-bone pattern to allow air to pass between them.

Brickmaking
, c. 1850, http://www.shol.com/agita/thespiel.htm

[69]
In a letter dated April 27, 1915 and distributed to local leaders of the LDS Church, President
Joseph F. Smith
encouraged a church-wide practice of a weekly "Family Home Evening". The letter described the event as being a time set apart for "prayer … hymns … family topics … and specific instruction on the principles of the gospel."

First Presidency letter, 27 April 1915
— Joseph F. Smith, Anthon H. Lund, Charles W. Penrose.

In 1970, President
Joseph Fielding Smith
, son of Joseph F. Smith, designated Monday night as the preferred time for Family Home Evening, asking local church units not to hold other church related meetings or activities on that night.  That tradition continues today.

Conference Report October 1970 session
-
Boyd K. Packer.

In the October 2002
LDS General Conference
, LDS Church President
Gordon B. Hinckley
encouraged local businesses and organizations to keep Monday night free of activities and other obstructions, so that members might more easily hold the FHE.

http://lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,23-1-315-18,00.html

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The
pharmacy
is located between the Morse residence and the Wells Fargo Express Office on Eureka St., at the intersection of Eureka and Main.  A drug store operated on this site for over 100 years, and was the site of the first drug store in Colorado.  It burned down in 1874 and was rebuilt just 48 hours later.

Alan Granruth,
Central City, Colorado 1859-1999
(Mining Gold to Mining Wallets)
,page 98.

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A will to win
on game day cannot possibly be stronger than a will to train before the game.

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“And it came to pass that he departed into the
wilderness
.  And he left his house, and the land of his inheritance, and his gold, and his silver, and his precious things, and took nothing with him, save it were his family, and provisions, and tents, and departed into the wilderness.”

The Book of Mormon
, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1830, 1 Nephi chapter 2

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“And Jesus said unto them, I am the
bread of life
: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.”

New Testament
, John 6:35

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  “… though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as
white as snow
; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”

Old Testament
  Isaiah 1:18

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A
fan chart
is a different way to display a pedigree.

www.familysearch.org

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To see your
Fan Chart
go to www.familysearch.org.

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  Continuing, the Prophet [Joseph Smith] emphasized, "I wish you to understand this subject, for it is important; and if you will receive it, this is the
spirit of Elijah
, that we redeem our dead and connect ourselves with our fathers which are in heaven, and seal up our dead to come forth in the first resurrection; and here we want the power of Elijah to seal those who dwell on earth to those who dwell in heaven. This is the power of Elijah and the keys of the kingdom of Jehovah."

http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/20083/Spirit-of-Elijah---a-fullness-of-priesthood.html

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Old Testament, 1 Kings 17:13-16
, 
Elijah
is fed by a widow whose barrel of meal and cruse of oil did not empty.

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The self igniting
match
was invented in 1805 by Jean Chancel.  Also, the safety match was patented in 1855 by Edvard Lundstrom of Sweden.

En.wikipedia.org/wiki/match

In 1889 Joshua Pusey invented the matchbook and called them “Flexibles.”

The friction match was invented by John Walker in 1827.

inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blmatch.htm
“The History of Matches” by Mary Bellis

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Suggested supplies for the Oregon Trail
:

2 sacks of flour

3 lbs pepper

1 bushel dried peaches

400 lbs bacon

2 bushels red beans

50 lbs rice

100 lbs coffee

15 gallons vinegar

200 lbs sugar

40 lbs of candles

25 lbs soap

10 lbs tea

50 lbs lard

Yeast powders

1 ten-gallon water keg

50 lbs salt

4 bushels dried apples

skillet, buckets, tablespoons, kettles, pans, picks and shovels, bread pans, and axe.

Lynda Hatch, 
The Oregon Trail
, J 978.02    1994

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Do Dogs Sweat?

Dogs have the ability to sweat, but in places that are a little different from humans. Dogs sweat through their pads and feet. Their skin and armpit areas don’t contain sweat glands like ours do. Their main method of ridding themselves from heat, however, is by panting, which is a very different mechanism than what we generally use.