By: Ardis E. Parshall - December 21, 2012 From the Liahona, 25 December 1909.  (FYI, the Grand Army of the Republic was the organization for Union veterans of the Civil War. They held their national encampment of August 1909 in Salt Lake City. With tens of thousands of out-of-town visitors, Salt Lake couldn’t house everyone in hotels; the vast majority of old soldiers stayed as guests in the spare rooms of Salt Lake families, man...
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