Random References.
Parley P. Pratt, will deliver an address on the subject of Pioneer Life, on Monday night at 7:30 January 25th at Third Ward meeting house. All are invited. Price of admission to suit the times. For press opinions, etc., see daily papers, and give us your patronage.
[Ogden Standard Examiner, Jan. 1, 1897]
[transcribed and proofread by David Grow, Sept. 2006]
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Elder Pratt’s Lectures.
Parley P. Pratt, of Salt Lake City, eldest son of the late renowned Apostle Parley Parker Pratt, during his stay in Ogden and vicinity of 35 days has found and made many warm friends, having been royally entertained by many of our chief citizens. Mr. Pratt has been absent now from home for over six weeks on a lecturing jaunt. During his sojourn in this country he has delivered some 18 or 20 stirring and eloquent addresses on different subjects to appreciative audiences. By special desire and invitation of the presiding officers of the Lynne ward, he repeated, or reproduced, on the evening of February 28th, his famous lecture on “Pioneer Life,” under the auspices of the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement association. He spoke to a crowded house, holding his audience entranced for one hour and a quarter. In one of his “dramatic and impassioned” sentences, in gesticulating with a backhanded movement, he struck a goblet of water, which had been set for his use, and sent it spinning across the platform floor. The incident caused a ripple of sensation and laughter. Mr. Pratt is a fearless champion, original, gifted, versatile and eloquent. He is regarded as being a worthy representative of his illustrious and eloquent sire. Mr. Pratt designs visiting in the future Morgan and Summit counties. He has been the recipient of favorable comment from all classes.
[Ogden Standard Examiner, Mar. 6, 1897]
[transcribed and proofread by David Grow, Sept. 2006]
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Park Float
Parley P. Pratt of Salt Lake lectures in the LDS Church tonight on Pioneer Life. His daughter Miss Cora M. Pratt who is a member of the famous tabernacle choir will render some vocal selections.
[Park Record, Apr. 10, 1897]
[transcribed and proofread by David Grow, Sept. 2006]