ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- Trivia fact for the day: the Mormon church operated a newspaper, the St. Louis Luminary, from November 1854 to December 1855. The periodical served the large community of transient Latter-day Saints, many of whom stopped in St Louis to replenish their strength (and funds) after the first leg of their journey to the Salt Lake Valley. In 1855, the paper commented, "There is probably no city in the world where Latter-day Saints are more respected, and where they may sooner obtain an outfit for Utah. ... The hand of the Lord is in these things."

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